Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2667
August 6, 2010
Palin Leads The Elites, Ctd
Like Gingrich, Pawlenty has come out against the Islamic community center near ground zero. Writing at his new blog, Weigel sighs:
So he's in line with Sarah Palin, who wants"peace-seeking Muslims" to understand that the mosque is a"provocation." But Palin put it better, didn't she? The way she has it,there are good Muslims who should understand that mosques close toGround Zero might offend people. The way Pawlenty has it, the veryexistence of a mosque would soil the "hallowed ground" of...
Why Not Call Obama A Socialist? Ctd
Stanley Kurtz believes that Obama is a socialist. Eugene Debs summarizes:
In other words: while Obama does not act like a socialist now, with abig Democratic majority and in the full flush of his mandate, he mightact like one later, when he's weaker. Or maybe not. Maybe thetransition is so precise and slow that Obama won't act like a socialistat all, and leave that to subsequent Democratic presidents andcongressional majorities. So when Obama rejects his party's left andtakes the most...
How Netanyahu Helped Destroy The Obama Promise, Ctd
A reader writes:
The poll says: Only 12 percent -- down from 25 percent last year -- say that Arabs should continue to fight even if there is a two-state peace agreement.
How is this bad news? The more Arabs that are willing to acknowledge Israel in the case of a two-state peace agreement the closer we come to having one. No other president has gotten Israel to suspend settlement increases, or gotten Bibi Netanyahu to be so willing to come to the bargaining table.The reason Israel elected...
Faces Of The Day
On August 1, 2010 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sokreun Mean, 36, holds a photo of herself when she was 18 years old. She was attacked outside her home with a large quantity of acid causing blindness and severe disfiguration to her face. She has been operated on over 20 times. Sokreun was divorced, but the estranged wife of her husband became jealous and attacked her. She is one of 270 patients receiving treatment by the Cambodian Acid Survivors Charity (CASC), an organization dedicated to the ...
If He Were President, Ctd
Wyclef Jean - Haiti - President of Haiti - Sean Penn - CNN
In A Pinch
Homophobia - Gay Lesbian and Bisexual - Gay - Arts and Entertainment - Comics
They Shoot Dogs, Don't They? Ctd
Mark Thompson answers this Dish reader:
Wherethis average person may believe humans who live in high crimeneighborhoods are capable or uniquely capable of evil or, at the veryleast, that cops are justifiably anxious and untrusting of such humans,this average person also likely knows that pets – and especially dogs – are always innocents, and that no decent human being could ever be soafraid of a dog as to try to kill it (well, unless it's a "pit bull" ofcourse, which is why cops have a bad...
Why Not? Ctd
Instead of raising energy prices, the point of the gas tax should be to raise revenues.In fact, a $5 gas tax could raise about $40 billion annually, as Aventnotes, without consumers feeling much financial pain at all. These revenues could then be dedicated to the kind of public-privatepartnership that has successfully catalyzed private sectorentrepreneurialism and innovation and...
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