Tom Friedman knocked me out with his book The World is Flat. The hard edge of truth has a way of doing that when it hits you between the eyes. But much as I admire his work, Friedman is not right about everything. Take his love and promotion of “energy technology” as the next great…
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Marc is a software developer, writer, and part-time political know-it-all who currently resides in Texas in the good ol' U.S.A.
Sarah Palin’s Nomination in Doubt?
Shaun Mullen of the once Moderate Voice says that Sarah Palin’s nomination for Republican Party’s vice-presidential slot is in jeopardy: Party elders not in the thrall of Phyllis Schlafly and James Dobson understand that McCain’s candidacy already is crippled by his own lackadaisical performance on the stump and twin albatrosses glowering on his shoulders by…
RNC Raids
Glen Greenwald writes that Minneapolis police were out in force today, “dropping in on” some of the Twin Cities’ hippy crowd and making them feel right at home in Minnesota. Looks like we’re gonna party like it’s 1968 again. After that little brouhaha in Chicago, no one in authority wants to see riots in their city. …
Georgian Provinces Defect to Russia
Did anyone out there seriously doubt that the takeover of the disputed regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia would be the outcome of Russia’s little invasion into Georgia? The Times of London: Tarzan Kokoity, the province’s Deputy Speaker of parliament, announced that South Ossetia would be absorbed into Russia soon so that its people could…
Dissecting Obama’s Acceptance Speech
24 hours ago Democrats were salivating all over themselves after Barack Obama gave his speech accepting their nomination for president. Since then I’ve been waiting to have a go at some of his statements. It almost seems pointless now that John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate has blown Obama out of…
Liberals on Palin
Amanda Marcotte says that Sarah Palin is a clever choice for McCain to have made but immediately heads to the abortion issue to disqualify her, dissing Palin as: a female anti-choicer, a straight-up sexist colluder. The base will be appeased that she shares their anti-woman sympathies, but the swing voter will simply see that she’s…
McCain and Sarah Palin
John McCain has picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as the bottom half of his ticket. Having never heard of her before there’s little to be said at this point, although the lack of notoriety Palin brings to the party speaks for itself in some ways. CNN: Palin, 44, who’s in her first term as…
Putin Blames U.S. for Georgia
Vladimir Putin is a bad boy and, like all bad boys, has a propensity for telling lies whenever he thinks he can get away with it. Today Vlad says that, in spite of the fact that it’s Russian troops in Georgia, the U.S. is behind the fighting in that country and that “American citizens” –…
Celebrity Limitations
I like Kid Rock’s music but not his foul-mouthed lyrics, many of which are nearly blue as the writing on certain not-to-be-named liberal web sites. But I have to give Kid this – he knows his limitations and professes to live within them, at least in regard to politics. "I truly believe that people like…
Democratic Revolution?
Hillary Clinton says she’s moved on after losing a tightly contested race for the Democratic presidential nomination. I hope that’s not true and that she uses her speech tonight to say the one true thing that’s in her heart: "Vote for me! I would make a better president than Barack Obama and here’s why…" Obama…