Is the Green Party candidacy in the race for Rick Santorum’s seat a wholly Republican sponsored affair? It’s looking that way.
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Kudlow: Israel-Lebanon war very, very good for stock market!
Yglesias adds some good critical analysis to J-Pod’s new pro-genocide positon on running the Middle East: brutal crackdown and massacres can be effective in the context of an on-going process of tyrannical repression and brutal dictatorship. Less so if you so don’t want to run a police state permanently, which probably undermines the argument in favor of indiscriminate mass-killing as a means of democratization and liberalization.
And yes, the collapse of the neocon vision of forcible democratization does seem to glide rather effortlessly into an embrace of genocide and mass slaughter.
So mass slaughter in the service of democratization to mass slaughter in the service of mass slaughter, or what I guess we could call the transition from incidental or pragmatic genocide to a more principled genocide.
Bill Arkin has a good corrective on some of the flawed logic and hypocrisy of the military commentary on the Israel-Lebanon war.
Cynthia in big trouble. Hank Johnson leading Rep. Cynthia McKinney by 49% to 34% one week before the primary run-off.
A weird coda to the recent shooting at the Jewish center in Seattle. The shooter, Naveed Haq, though raised a Muslim, had converted last year to Christianity. He told the pastor who baptised him in December that he had “seen too much anger in Islam and that he wanted to find a new beginning in Christianity.” Behind that the familiar story of personal and professional failure, manic depression, an arrest earlier this year for “lewd conduct” at a local mall.
House Republicans cut-and-run on “french fries” issue. That and other news of the day in today’s Daily Muck.
Going down fighting. McKinney sues Atlanta Journal-Constitution for libel.
Harris lied to staff about getting Cunningham investigation subpoena.