Andymatic

Month: September 2007

  • Ahmadinejad Wins

    From Sam Sedaei: He knew that the city was home to over two million Jews, and that he would face massive protests. But that is precisely the martyr-like image that he was intending to create. … The president of Columbia’s criticisms of Ahmadinejad’s crimes before his speech was very constructive. But Bollinger did the cause […]

  • DoD Analyst Behind Pentagon Papers: 'A Coup Has Occured'

    Daniel Ellsberg: Let me simplify this and not just to be rhetorical: A coup has occurred. I woke up the other day realizing, coming out of sleep, that a coup has occurred. It’s not just a question that a coup lies ahead with the next 9/11. That’s the next coup, that completes the first.

  • 38% of FBI Watch List is Inaccurate

    Just on CNN. The FBI’s terrorist watch list has 300,000 entries with 15,000 citizens. They get 100 calls a day and 65% of those are positive IDs. What they don’t say is what they are being identified for. The first audit of the system has been released – after how many years? What I wonder […]

  • Glen Greenwald on Worthless Democrats

    I love Glen. I want to be Glen. I wish I was as smart and awesome as Glen. He is close to reaching my heroes list: The right-wing Republicans in Congress have an affinity with their base and share the same basic values. By very stark contrast, most (though certainly not all) Democrats in Congress […]

  • Paul Krugman on the 4 Periods of Recent US Economic History

    Kruggy has a new blog: In fact, let me start this blog off with a chart that’s central to how I think about the big picture, the underlying story of what’s really going on in this country. The chart shows the share of the richest 10 percent of the American population in total income – […]

  • Ayn Rand and the Fortune 500

    Randroids abound: [Atlas Shrugged] book attracted a coterie of fans, some of them top corporate executives, who dared not speak of its impact except in private. “I know from talking to a lot of Fortune 500 C.E.O.’s that ‘Atlas Shrugged’ has had a significant effect on their business decisions, even if they don’t agree with […]

  • Belgium Ventures Towards Schism

    From the NYT: Radical Flemish separatists like Mr. Dewinter want to slice the country horizontally along ethnic and economic lines: to the north, their beloved Flanders — where Dutch (known locally as Flemish) is spoken and money is increasingly made — and to the south, French-speaking Wallonia, where a kind of provincial snobbery was once […]

  • A Brief History of the Republican Majority

    Jonathan Chait with an excerpt of his book The Big Con: I have this problem. Whenever I try to explain what’s happening in American politics-I mean, what’s really happening-I wind up sounding a bit like an unhinged conspiracy theorist. … So please give let me a chance to explain myself when I tell you the […]

  • Why Rent? Median Incomes Don't Support Median Home Prices

    From E-Finance Directory: Now is perhaps the best time in US history to be a renter. You are far better off paying high rents for the next few years than buying a home and watching your equity disappear while the market takes a freefall. The home prices that we are seeing today are artificial and […]

  • Pope to Condi Rice: 'Suck It'

    Everybody’s favorite Nazi-pope told everybody’s favorite frustrated pianist: Pope Benedict XVI refused a meeting request from Condoleezza Rice to meet this past August and discuss issues pertaining to Iraq and the Middle East in general. The first reason is that back in March 2003 — just before the Iraq war began — Rice met with […]