The fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks he has the moral compass to talk about diplomacy is in itself laughable. The fact that he sees himself capable of teaching the idea of Diplomacy to Americans is Rolling On The…
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With 99% of the votes in New York counted, Anthony Weiner has only 4%. Maybe Weiner was showing us how many votes he got and this finger was the start of his count. A blurry image of #Weiner saying goodbye…
But we’re talking about Fox News here, and chances are they’ll have no idea what Stewart meant when he said; And I get that Fox opposes a Syria peace plan because its motus operandi is to foment dissent in the…
The video below is Fox News’ Neil Cavuto discussing with evangelical writer and former political consultant Joel Rosenberg whether or not the current civil war in Syria is a harbinger of the End Times. To be fair, both pundits were…
One of the criticisms of President Obama’s plan to strike Syria was that once a country unleashes weapons on another, the consequences are unpredictable and uncontrollable. The same could be said for diplomacy. Obama’s speech last night was certainly different from…
President Obama will back a United Nations effort to secure Syria’s chemical weapons stockpiles, the White House said Tuesday. Separately, a group of senators said they were working on a new use-of-force resolution that would only authorize military action if…
I’m a Lawrence O’ Donnell fan. But after watching his “interview” of Anthony Weiner last night, I was left feeling disgusted. To think that on the eve of one of the most important mayoral elections nationwide, that Lawrence would bring…
Michael Tomasky made this observation on The Republican hypocrisy on Syria. Imagine that Mitt Romney were president. Romney took a far more hawkish line than Barack Obama did on Syria during the campaign. He wanted to arm the rebels, supported…
George Zimmerman could easily be considered the luckiest man in America. After murdering Trayvon Martin, Zimmerman walked away a free man. Since then, he’s gotten into various encounters with the police, even one where he was stopped for speeding in…
A new documentary called Mission Congo is claiming that Pat Robertson stole donations intended for Rwanda refugees, and sent those funds to his diamond mine instead. “Mission Congo,” directed by Lara Zizic and David Turner, was largely inspired by the…
New York’s mayor Michael Bloomberg has jumped into the mix, calling Bill de Blasio’s campaign racist. Bill de Blasio is the leading New York democratic mayoral candidate trying to get Bloomberg’s job. In an interview with New York magazine, Mr….
I know that this is not the popular choice, given our experience in Iraq and Afghanistan. For the record, I supported strikes in Afghanistan as necessary to weaken terrorists, and certainly opposed the Iraq War as based on faulty intelligence…