Bill Kristol

Afutilestan IX (Update)

by Propagandee July 1, 2010

US taxpayers funding the killing of its own troops [Note: The arguments of my previous eight Afutilestan diaries explaining why the continuing and escalating presence of US troops in Afghanistan is doomed to fail are incorporated herein.] So what’s new since my last quagmire update? Last night the House approved another $30 billion in military [...]

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Whatever It Is They’re Against It

by Propagandee July 22, 2009

“Horsefeathers” to become new Rethuglican campaign ad Any doubt that the Rethuglicans are bereft of ideas and have instead adopted a strategy of just say no to everything President Obama has been put to rest over the last week. As Greg Sargent at his Plumline blog puts it: On Friday, GOP Senator Jim DeMint told [...]

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Sarah Palin’s Resignation

by Propagandee July 3, 2009

Sarah Palin riding her dinner home When I lived in Alaska, I lived in a suburban Anchorage neighborhood where there were no fences and the dogs were allowed to roam free ’till their meal tickets returned home from work. Mine, a 90 lb Rotweiller-Weimaraner mix, was no exception. The winter of ’92 was particularly bad. [...]

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Torture In Context

by Propagandee April 22, 2009

Demonstrating an “enhanced interrogation technique” In 1999, Bush‘s family biographer, Mickey Herskowitz, reports that W. told him he was intent on invading Iraq, saying that his status as a war time president would give him enough political capital to push through his conservative domestic agenda. (That would include the privatization of social security whose blood [...]

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