This is how empires decline. It begins with a debt explosion. It ends with an inexorable reduction in the resources available for the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Which is why voters are right to worry about America’s debt crisis. According to a recent Rasmussen report, 42 percent of Americans now say that cutting the [...]
[30 Nov 2009]
A less polite me would say “Really, Thom Friedman? Just STFU because your latest column is the biggest load of BS on the internet this week.” So thank you Glenn Greenwald for taking Friedman to task: In a very rare moment of candor for this rank war-loving propagandist, he announced very clearly the real purpose [...]
[29 Nov 2009]
From Karen Armstrong’s Foreign Policy piece: Think Again: God: Homo sapiens is also Homo religiosus. As soon as we became recognizably human, men and women started to create religions. We are meaning-seeking creatures. While dogs, as far as we know, do not worry about the canine condition or agonize about their mortality, humans fall very [...]
[19 Nov 2009]