Day: March 4, 2009

“We don’t have to accept the stoning of criminals. But it’s time to stop treating all Islamists as potential terrorist”

https://www.newsweek.com/id/187093
Learning to Live With Radical Islam,
The above is the Newsweek March 9 cover story by Fareed Zakaria

Finally an article on from a major publication on separating al Qaeda from other Muslims. Unfortunately, Zakaria didn’t mention much on al Qaeda. However the Daily & Sunday Telegraph in England and New Yorker Magazine did, see,

As a libertarian, I am constantly astounded by the hypocrisy of so-called “conservatives,” especially radio talk show “conservatives” who are now mewling and ululating over the projected Obama deficits in the trillions of dollars.

Not that I support Obama’s insane program of spending ourselves rich; no one in history has ever become wealthy by running up huge, unpayable balances on one’s credit card. In like manner, you can’t spend yourself out of a recession, because spending is the cause of the problem, rather than the solution.

Came across a commentary I wrote in February 2008 about how Americans were being lied to re: the economy by most our leaders and media. Interesting how all the denial during that time enabled many wealthy individuals and corporations to reap profits even when too many Americans were “feeling the heat” re: financial problems with mortgages and daily living expenses. It makes you realize how slow our leaders react to urgent issues at the national, state and local levels.

I don’t think that we will ever really know whether the fears that Bush/Cheney would not leave office in January 2009 were justified, but suspicious minds learning more and more of the bypassing of the constitution are pushed deeper into such fears.

By allowing itself to be defined by lunatics like Rush Limbaugh, the Republican Party is proving itself the party of the past, a political afterthought.

And the White House is making sure everyone knows it.