Liberal Talk Radio

Bite it, NCAA Bracketer-In-Chief. You, too, Kornacki: The president’s two first round “upset” picks really don’t amount to much. He has the 11th-seeded Temple Owls, a streaking squad that won last weekend’s Atlantic-10 tournament, knocking off Arizona State, a team whose down-the-stretch underachievement culminated in an embarrassing Pac-10 title game loss to USC (a team [...]

Bush’s failure is complete: Russia flexed its muscles in America’s backyard yesterday as it sent one of its largest warships to join military exercises in the Caribbean. The nuclear-powered flagship Peter the Great set off for Venezuela with the submarine destroyer Admiral Chabanenko and two support vessels in the first Russian naval mission in Latin [...]

Seriously, I’m stunned. Stunned that I can still be appalled by anything GWB could do/say. “President Bush is well aware that the banner should have been much more specific and said `mission accomplished’ for these sailors who are on this ship on their mission,” White House press secretary Dana Perino said Wednesday. “And we have [...]

Bush has nominated Gen. Petraeus to head the U.S. Central Command, replacing Admiral William Fallon. Fallon wasn’t too keen on the whole “bomb Iran” thing, so he got canned. But remember, Bush always listens to his “commanders on the ground!” Politics never enters the equation, of course!! And, of course, who could possibly be more [...]

Friedman has a nice essay in today’s NYT laying out just how far America’s fallen as a result of Bush’s disastrous post-9/11 overreaction. Like all good satire, the story [in the Onion] made me both laugh and cry, because it reflected something so true — how much, since 9/11, we’ve become “The United States of [...]

I usually think Krugman is a windbag [takes one to know one!], but at least he, too, listens to B&P: As far as I can tell, America has never fought a war in which mercenaries made up a large part of the armed force. But in Iraq, they are so central to the effort that, [...]

Ah, L’il Kid Nuclear arrives to much protesting in NYC. I love it. The delicious irony of conservative twits getting their knickers in a twist over Ahmadinejad’s invite to speak at Columbia. Land of the Free denying El Presidente a chance to tour Ground Zero. Ahmadinejad baiting America’s hatemongers by pointing out that there are [...]

Being beholden to a lender induces a state of servitude which in its extreme instances is exactly akin to outright enslavement.  Enslavement, whether by chain or by checkbook, is the opposite of liberty, the most American of values.  Thus have personages from Christ to Franklin proffered admonishments against indebtedness. But Bush — and, under his [...]

Believe Bush’s lies (damn lies) or not if you will [I don't], but in truth there are people out there plotting to kill us. Put that in your hookah and smoke it. Once you’ve accepted this basic truth, it’s time to get a grip on your expectations. Bush and his cronies persist in the fallacy [...]

Yesterday, I posted about the new National Intelligence Estimate Bush’s cronies trotted out just in time to muddle the ongoing Congressional discussions about an Iraq pullout. This report — created by the office of the Director of National Intelligence and entitled “The Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland” — alleges that al Queda and the [...]