War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
From McClatchy Newspapers: Sniping and snide remarks are out on Capitol Hill. Being nice — and seeking common ground, or at least appearing to — is suddenly in. Since returning from their summer recess earlier this month, lawmakers have heeded the strong message from an infuriated public: Stop squabbling, fix the economy and act like…
Once in a while, I come across something that both deeply saddens and pisses me off to no frickin’ end. In the horrific display of cold-hearted meaness overflowing in the two recent GOP presidential debates — especially in the infamous incident of the uninsured — comes an effective, and emotionality-charged post at Daily Kos about the…
malism: The doctrine that this world is evil — (HEADWORD) pessimism. When George Jr. ordered the US invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 — another decade gone — according to Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center, initial support by US peoples for the act was around 90 percent: In 2001 and 2002, about 40…
Even as US peoples are trying to keep their lives from being sucked down the financial toilet while trying to figure out which GOP presidential candidate is the most half-wit-crazed, attention has been slight on another 10-year anniversary coming up in a slight three weeks — the disastrous war in Afghanistan. This week, however, one…
In the wake of all the solemn ceremonies this past weekend during the 9/11 commemorations and all the chatter of a possible terrorist attack during the proceedings, the US is still full of fright for that long-armed, snake-in-the-grass called al-Qaeda. Talking TV heads waxed eloquent on how bad the terror group — Jumping Joe Biden…
Watching the ceremonies this morning in New York is way sad — not just for the innocents killed today a decade ago and their families, but also for the naive, near-pompous nationalism inspired by the event. The only ones entitled to really grieve are friends and relatives of the victims (to them, most-likely, everyday since…
As US peoples get ready to wallow in way-much sob-worthy self-agony for the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center attack, other peoples are dying like gnats and flies — literally. As horrific and criminally insane those attacks were, US peoples will always be self-centered, self-indulgent in celebrating the event until we can come to…
In the wake of the more-recent events in Libya, the world wants to know much-more about the US CIA’s nefarious so-called ‘rendition‘ program, which led to all those “black sites” in at least seven countries where “enhanced interrogation” took place — people were kidnapped off city streets, take to secret prisons and tortured. An operation created…
(Illustration found here). “The economy makes it really tough right now,” said (Tyler) Mitchell. “People say, ‘You go to college, you get a degree, you’ll get a great job.’ Well nowadays, I don’t really think that’s really the case. You go to college, you get a degree, you get a lot of debt, and you…
After my weekly visit to the laundromat this morning, I put another $20 worth of gas in my old Jeep, this time the price per gallon was back to near-about standard: $4.09 — a dime more than last time, and back to a price where it had seemed to stick for weeks. Just part of…