Random, occasionally rambling thoughts with links to interesting, scandalous, or partisan news of the day.

Fair and Balanced

Dead Heroes
• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Jefferson
• Benjamin Franklin
  

Living Heroes
We owe the liberty and freedom we take for granted to the enlisted men and women in the armed forces. They sacrifice family, ease, and even life laboring in service to all of us. The least we can do for them is honor their devotion with dignified pay scales, decent education for themselves and their children, and reasonable compensation for service away from their families and death on the battlefield. Flag waving politicians who praise the troops on one hand and cut their pay and benefits with the other should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

Blogs I Read Often
• Talking Points Memo
• Atrios
• FireDogLake
• Brad DeLong
• The Daily Howler
• Daily Kos
• Glenn Greenwald
• MyDD
• The News Blog
• Oliver Willis
• Political Wire
• The Volokh Conspiracy
  

An Irrelevant Proposal People sometimes wonder why Krugman never has a good thing to say about Bush proposals. I've never had that problem since I see no need to pander to pretensions of balance in my commentary. The fact that Bush is wrong on a universe of issues is not a reason to withhold criticism. From energy to prescription drugs to steel tariffs to ludicrous posturing about North Korea, this President is woefully prepared to be the leader of "all of us". Krugman merely points out today that yet again the President has avoided addressing a real issue in order to repay favors to the richest, least needy Americans. Go for it, Paul. I don't need no stinkin' balance.
posted by Dave on 11:44 AM | 0 comments link

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