On this day, I always know that, despite disagreements on the particulars, ultimately all Americans stand for the same basic rights. That, whatever differences we may have, we all recognize what this day stands for.
Happy Independence Day America!
‘The Department of Defense — on the heels of the firestorm over the release of Bush-era memos on CIA interrogation techniques — said Thursday it plans to make public at least 44 photos depicting potentially abusive treatment of detainees at prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan,’ Fox News reports.| MORE ›
Writes Robert L. Samuelson:
They’ve left the impression that somehow magical technological breakthroughs will produce clean energy that is also cheap. Perhaps that will happen; it hasn’t yet. They’ve talked so often about the need to control wasteful health spending that they’ve implied they’ve actually found a way of doing so. Perhaps they will, but they haven’t yet.
Indeed, as the GOP looks to reinvent itself after appalling losses last year, some Republicans are flirting with the Tory conservatism of Cameron and his team.
The strong conservatism of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from 1979 to 1990 hasn’t been the norm for British Tories since World War II.| MORE ›
A reader pointed this video at YouTube out at me. It’s a great movie about Americanism and the American system. Watch it. We’ve heard much about ‘democracy’ in recent years. Democracy has become ‘goal’ in itself, the ultimate system.| MORE ›
CBS “60 Minutes” interviewed President Barack Obama yesterday. Obama made several interesting comments during the interview, one of which was related to Afghanistan:| MORE ›
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