en-us http://www.intensedebate.com/users/622141 Comments by Heathcliff_Maw http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2012/02/09/liberals-love-liberty-drones/#IDComment290906037 I have to point out that the poll said 53% of self-identified liberal DEMOCRATS (I saw the original WP article) approved the policy. Partisanship is a mental disorder. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:56:55 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2012/02/09/liberals-love-liberty-drones/#IDComment290906037 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2012/02/09/can-we-reschedule-the-war-madonnas-coming/#IDComment290221261 Don't talk bad about Madonna. How many wars have you postponed? Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:57:50 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2012/02/09/can-we-reschedule-the-war-madonnas-coming/#IDComment290221261 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/06/us-funded-textbooks-teach-afghan-children-whitewashed-history/#IDComment286228744 "In an effort to bring people together, American history books are removing all mention of the Civil War, slavery and Jim Crow." Think of the problems that would create. Why are blacks disproportionately in poverty? It wouldn't be because of generations of institutionalized discrimination, We would just have to assume it was something genetic. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 13:57:20 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/06/us-funded-textbooks-teach-afghan-children-whitewashed-history/#IDComment286228744 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/22/human-rights-watch-warns-of-iraqs-budding-police-state/#IDComment272592151 Well, it was always the goal to make Iraq more like the United States. Mission accomplished! Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:00:50 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/22/human-rights-watch-warns-of-iraqs-budding-police-state/#IDComment272592151 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/07/paul-gingrich-spar-over-chicken-hawk-charge/#IDComment258771947 It's gay slang for someone who likes teenage boys, but it is also political slang for someone who avoids service in interventionist wars (like Vietnam, Korea or Iraq) when eligible, but supports sending others to fight interventionist wars. Sun, 8 Jan 2012 19:31:55 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/07/paul-gingrich-spar-over-chicken-hawk-charge/#IDComment258771947 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/12/21/cenk-ugyur-has-it-right/#IDComment244728085 Part of O'Reilly's mission is to discredit Romney whenever possible. That's why O'Reiily flip flops on Iran. FNC can't stand Romney nor Paul. Ugyar will give Obama credit when he feels it is deserved and will criticize Obama when he disagrees with him--which is most of the time. Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:05:51 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/12/21/cenk-ugyur-has-it-right/#IDComment244728085 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/12/16/christopher-hitchens-fundamentalist-exemption-for-zionism/#IDComment242049402 The Hitch is now Saddam Hussein's bitch. (Those who watch "South Park" know what I mean.) Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:43:05 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/12/16/christopher-hitchens-fundamentalist-exemption-for-zionism/#IDComment242049402 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/12/15/congress-passes-defense-bill-codifying-indefinite-detention/#IDComment238783404 Like terrorism has been such a problem the last 10 years that we must pass an Enabling Act to make the president a dictator. This is a fascist country. That is not hyperbole. Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:39:47 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/12/15/congress-passes-defense-bill-codifying-indefinite-detention/#IDComment238783404 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/11/15/israeli-military-chief-calls-for-major-invasion-of-gaza-strip/#IDComment223143904 Israel's strategy: Brutalize and deprive people until they fight back in whatever meager way they can, then use that retaliation as justification to exterminate them. Apparently "never again" just meant "against the Jews." Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:42:33 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/11/15/israeli-military-chief-calls-for-major-invasion-of-gaza-strip/#IDComment223143904 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/11/15/did-feds-coordinate-occupy-wall-street-crackdowns/#IDComment223142418 He may have meant it as sarcasm, but it was the right thing to say. Okay, I'm just joking. Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:38:24 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/11/15/did-feds-coordinate-occupy-wall-street-crackdowns/#IDComment223142418 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/11/15/did-feds-coordinate-occupy-wall-street-crackdowns/#IDComment223141406 The DHS is really the Department of Power Establishment Security. Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:35:45 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/11/15/did-feds-coordinate-occupy-wall-street-crackdowns/#IDComment223141406 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/10/05/white-house-secret-panel-can-order-americans-assassinated/#IDComment203860894 Just because Barry Zero taught constitutional law does not mean he ever believed in the constitution. I had a professor back in the day that taught us about the USSR and he wasn't a communist. Thu, 6 Oct 2011 12:59:50 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/10/05/white-house-secret-panel-can-order-americans-assassinated/#IDComment203860894 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/09/09/report-israeli-fm-urges-arming-terrorists-to-punish-turkey/#IDComment191641078 This is a GREAT story! Turkey was one of the few countries friendly to Israel. Not any more. This ought to really convince the Turks that the Israeli leaders are murderous sociopaths that can't be trusted. Fri, 9 Sep 2011 21:20:54 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/09/09/report-israeli-fm-urges-arming-terrorists-to-punish-turkey/#IDComment191641078 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/09/06/gates-israel-an-ungrateful-ally/#IDComment190685526 Don't you wish the US Congress was as loyal to American citizens as the Turkish government is to its citizens? Wed, 7 Sep 2011 12:34:46 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/09/06/gates-israel-an-ungrateful-ally/#IDComment190685526 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/08/26/us-vows-to-stop-all-aid-if-palestinians-seek-statehood/#IDComment187104042 The US gives millions of dollars a year to the Palestinian Authority. It gives billions to Israel (about $3B in direct aid and another $2B in loan guarantees). This move shows how opposed to supposed American principles "our" government is: opposing the liberty and self-determination of millions of people. I favor ending ALL foreign aid, but this discrimination motivated by kowtowing to Israel is enraging. Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:39:00 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/08/26/us-vows-to-stop-all-aid-if-palestinians-seek-statehood/#IDComment187104042 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/08/22/dear-antiwar-progressives-we-are-with-you/#IDComment185791461 I loved this sentence: "Summers is no libertarian, and frankly, not much of an economist." On several occasions I have called Summers the most incompetent economist in America. One of my biggest complaints with progressives (and I prefer to call myself a liberal) is that they will vote Democratic every time (instead of lodging protest votes for third-party candidates) because they are more afraid of Republicans than they hate the Democrats who always take them for granted and shit on them. The ones who voted for Nader in 2000 had the right idea, but were too small in number to make an effective statement that they couldn't be taken for granted by Democrats. The best thing anti-tax conservatives did to increase their power was to vote in large numbers for Ross Perot in 1992. Bush was destined to lose that election anyway, owing to the recession. By voting for Perot, they made a strong statement that they could not be taken for granted. The Republican politicians have cow towed to them since. Obama is destined to lose in 2012 due to the ongoing high rate of unemployment. So progressives have nothing to lose and everything to gain by abandoning the Democrats this time to vote third party. I predict they will once again be corralled by fear of the boogeyman Republican. They will throw away their leverage by voting for the conservative DINO Obama who has betrayed them consistently. Obama will still lose and progressives will still have no political influence. Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:31:47 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/08/22/dear-antiwar-progressives-we-are-with-you/#IDComment185791461 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/08/19/weekinreview08191/#IDComment185244307 A thought on the article on Sunday's front page about Rick Perry saying a "thoughtful discussion" needs to take place regarding withdrawal from Afghanistan and Iraq. That comment is designed to let you read whatever you want into it. It is totally noncommittal to any action and Perry is trying to take two positions on the same issue. Perry says that we should be less eager to jump into a conflict, but then he criticizes Obama's supposed timeline for withdrawal. In other words, tell people that when you do the exact same thing, it will only be after a "more careful" consideration. Once we jump into a conflict, we can never leave no matter how pointless and wasteful it is to continue. Rick Perry is nothing but a Jesus-praising Barack Obama with a Texas drawl. Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:43:10 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/08/19/weekinreview08191/#IDComment185244307 http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/08/04/why-is-america-committing-suicide/#IDComment180383981 There are things we could do to decrease the deficit that would not hurt a recovery: end the wars, end foreign aid, decrease military spending besides ending the wars. Money flows out of the economy through all those things, especially maintaining foreign military bases. Most of the rest of the military budget is a corporate welfare program for the politically connected. We should also raise taxes on incomes above a certain level (like at least $1-million) because that money largely just sits in savings while there is little business investment going on. Corporations are sitting on two trillion dollars of cash reserves because the economy is so weak. Beyond that, the government needs to run deficits for the next few years so that we can grow our way out of the recession and the deficit. Further austerity measures should come later. Keynes was absolutely right. Interest rates are near zero and the economy is stagnant because we are in a liquidity trap caused by trillions of dollars of wealth being wiped out in 2008. That caused a collapse of aggregate demand. This is the first recession since the Great Depression that requires Keynes' solution to such a liquidity trap. (Keynes believed that monetary policy should be used instead when dealing with cyclical recessions.) Fri, 5 Aug 2011 15:10:46 +0000 http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/08/04/why-is-america-committing-suicide/#IDComment180383981 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/07/25/goldman-sachs-us-faces-credit-downgrade-if-it-counts-eventual-end-of-war-as-deficit-reduction/#IDComment177462611 The bigger gimmick is downgrading the credit rating if the deficit isn't cut. This is a phony crisis. The US had a larger debt-to-GDP ratio at the end of WWII. The real crisis is an economy stalled by a collapse of aggregate demand. Interest rates are extremely low. That means the debt is not a drag on the economy and there is nothing more that monetary policy can do. A growing economy would do more to erase the deficit than the proposed cuts in spending, so now is the time to engage in deficit spending to kick-start the economy. Apparently the crooks at Goldman Sachs who are largely responsible for crashing the economy want to see the recession drag on longer than the war in Afghanistan. Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:57:49 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/07/25/goldman-sachs-us-faces-credit-downgrade-if-it-counts-eventual-end-of-war-as-deficit-reduction/#IDComment177462611 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/06/21/mccain-kerry-bill-would-ok-libya-war-for-one-year/#IDComment165307392 Whatever happened to "days, not weeks"? I knew that was a lie the moment I heard it. Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:29:31 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2011/06/21/mccain-kerry-bill-would-ok-libya-war-for-one-year/#IDComment165307392