The Daily Show Discusses President Obama’s Kill List

June 18, 2012 by Leave a comment

Conservatives have a habit of attacking President Obama for actions and agenda items that do not exist, whether it’s lying about his place of birth (as they’re desperate to point out that he’s not a WASP) or his record on taxes (yes, Obama has provided significant tax cuts). One of the many unfortunate consequences of the Republican penchant for fantasy is that, when Obama does do something which deserves criticism, we do not have a loyal opposition there making the reasoned and rational case against him. Case in point: Obama’s Kill List.

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Sunday Night Video – Republicans Politicize Terrorism (News You Already Know)

May 6, 2012 by 1 Comment

We all know that no one in American political life has mastered the art of politicizing terrorism more than the Republican Party, and that their attacks on President Obama for mentioning the death of Bin Laden is just an extension of this practice. Here’s the video proof from Talking Points Memo.

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Greenwald Interrogates Terrorism

January 17, 2012 by Leave a comment

It’s another of those subjects that can get one accused of not being sufficiently patriotic…questioning the tactics of your one’s own government. Whenever I think of how criticism of terrorism is only allowed to be directed outward, it’s like I’m back to being a child feeling angry at an unjust world. What good are values if they only start past the border?

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60 Second Movie Review: Die Hard (1988)

December 29, 2011 by 1 Comment

I’ve been catching up on my holiday viewing. From 1988. (Fun fact: Die Hard is set on Christmas Eve and was released in Uruguay on Christmas Day, 1988.) And did you know it was already a sequel? Novelist Roderick Thorp had written the book, The Detective, Nothing Lasts Forever (1979), as a sequel to The Detective (1966), which was made into a 1968 film with Frank Sinatra.

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