Op-Ed: The Second Great Depression? Minyanville Staff Oct 06, 2008 2:45 pm This country has been living in false prosperity since the early 1980s: The huge McMansions, luxury cars, high tech gadgets, granite kitchens, second homes and exotic vacations were all purchased with debt. These “assets” are depreciating rapidly, and consumers and companies are selling [...]
Archive for October 10th, 2008
10 Oct
That Other Failed War
By Dan Froomkin Special to washingtonopost.com Thursday, October 9, 2008; 12:37 PM With less than four months left in their tenure, White House aides are scrambling to come up with some sort of winning strategy for Afghanistan, the long-eclipsed war that’s looking increasingly like another major debacle for President Bush’s legacy. There’s no question Afghanistan [...]
10 Oct
The President Who Will Deal With Iran
By Michael Gerson Friday, October 10, 2008; Page A19 The Washington Post A specter is haunting the presidential race — and it is not just the economy. It is the specter of a nuclear Iran. Economic downturns are wrenching but cyclical. Nuclear proliferation is more difficult to reverse, creating the permanent prospect of massive miscalculation [...]
10 Oct
Early Returns Are Promising In ‘SNL’s’ Thursday Campaign
By Tom Shales Friday, October 10, 2008; Page C01 The Washington Post In television, success breeds success, which can then breed excess. So far, “Saturday Night Live” is still at the success-success level, a happy fact of life celebrated last night with the first of three prime-time specials keyed to the forthcoming presidential election. [...]
10 Oct
AFGHANISTAN
‘Muddling Through’ Asked in November 2003 whether the United States would “finish the job” in Afghanistan, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) responded “I’m not as concerned as I am about Iraq…but I believe that if Karzai can make the progress that he is making then in the long term we may muddle through in Afghanistan.” Unfortunately, [...]
10 Oct
12 New Stomach-Turning Revelations About Sarah Palin
By AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. Posted October 10, 2008. Palin has taken to smearing Obama. But it’s her own record that continues to yield alarming information, undermining her skills and credibility. Sarah Palin has had a lot of ups and downs in her time in the national spotlight. When she was first nominated, the Alaska [...]
