Liberal Talk Radio

If we can put a man on the moon, surely we can fix America’s health care mess. Links Mentioned: Frank Rich on the Sotomayor hearings … how NASA lost the moon tapes … NASA’s current plans … Tom Wolfe on the agency’s lack of vision … The Way We Never Were

Terrorism in America, talk of a second stimulus package and finally, finally, finally, Seattle’s Light Rail opens. Links Mentioned: Somalis … the secret Cheney/CIA program … Holder open to a special prosecutor … Michigan cuts to the bone.

Score one for the U.S. against Brazil. After the G-8 summit, Lula made a show of presenting Obama with an autographed  Brazil jersey.  Kind of a fun, professional way of being annoying.  Not to be outdone: As the two leaders wrapped up their bilateral talks today, Lula had already taken out his earpiece providing interpretation [...]

A coupe of items in my RSS reader today that seemed relevant to this week’s podcast. First, as Matski notes below (and noted on the podcast), there’s a liberal case to be made that President Obama acted wrongly in supporting ousted Pres. Zelaya in Honduras. Francisco Toro, who blogs about Venezuela and Chavez, basically agrees [...]

When we four humble bloggers are on the verge of retirement* in 30-40 years, will the conventional wisdom regarding national elections be “well, Governor Smith has a lot of neat ideas, but we must keep in mind that the American electorate hasn’t elected a governor to the presidency since George W. Bush in 2000?” *Yeah, [...]

Well, it’s happened.  I’m in complete agreement with the WSJ’s take on events in Honduras: This is a moment when the U.S. ought to be on the side of the rule of law, which the Honduran court and Congress upheld. If Washington does not reverse course, it will be one more act of appeasement toward [...]

Franken, Palin and our international news roundup: Honduras, Iran, and Iraq.

Our enthusiasm for the sport aside, this seems to go beyond even the 1919 Black Sox Scandal: Football is being used as a vehicle for money laundering, according to an agency responsible for tracking the proceeds of crime. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) report warns football is at risk from criminals buying clubs, transferring [...]