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[Joe] LIEBERMAN: Iraq which we thought we had lost not so long ago, now looks like to me like a success. I?d say, I?d use the word victory because I?m, you know, I?m old fashioned.
Perhaps Lieberman's statement was prompted by this news:
Three more American soldiers were killed this week, the United States military announced on Thursday, bringing the combat-related deaths for United States forces in Iraq to a monthly toll not seen since 2008.
... because he did acknowledge that:
But as we see in the paper, extremists, Islamic extremists will continue to blow themselves and other people in Iraq up, and so the victory is not going to be as satisfying as it?s been in other conflicts we?ve been involved in ...
Indeed. People being blown up and U.S. soldiers continuing to die isn't as satisfying as what we used to call victory?otherwise known as winning. As the newfangled crowd likes to call it.
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As Meteor Blades has covered in depth, states and municipalities have laid off hundreds of thousands of workers, with tens of thousands more layoffs expected.
An analysis from the Center for American Progress connects the cuts, the layoffs, and the effect on entire state economies:
From the start of the Great Recession in December 2007 through the end of 2010, 24 states have cut government spending by an average of 7.5 percent after adjusting for inflation. Another 25 states have expanded government outlays by an average of 11 percent.
As Republicans have told us, government spending is bad, so the states that spent more must have really bad economies now, right? And the states that cut spending must have great economies and rock-bottom unemployment? Not so much. The states that spent more ended up with:
- 0.2 percentage point decrease in the unemployment rate
- 1.4 percent increase in private employment
- 0.5 percent real economic growth since the start of the recession
In contrast, states that cut spending saw on average
- 1 percentage point increase in the unemployment rate
- 2.1 percent loss of private employment
- 2.9 percent real economic contraction relative to the national economic trend
If I were fool enough to think that Republican governors and legislators were really looking for good economic outcomes here?or anyway, for economic outcomes that benefited their constituents?I would suggest they might want to consider changing tactics. Since that's not actually anything they care about, however, it's up to voters to pay attention to what's working and who's taking their interests even moderately to heart.
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Roger Cohen is both cheered and chilled by thoughts of the decade since 9/11.
Perhaps it?s the skies of a 9/11 blue, perhaps it?s the passage of a decade, perhaps it?s the thought of all the articles and reflections and memorial services now just weeks away, I can?t help seeing the city as a kaleidoscope of now and then, jagged images of molten steel and lost ones alternating with scenes of careless summer laughter.A beautifully written, evocative piece by a man who appreciates good writing.New York has won again. It has come back. America has not. That?s the kernel these images secrete.
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The city has asserted its ability to come together. The ?homeland,? awful post-9/11 neologism, has not. America struggles still to rediscover its bearings and sense of direction. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, with their more than 6,000 U.S. dead, still take their toll. The ?banksters,? salvaged by tax dollars, get richer. Ordinary folk get poorer. Youth unemployment is at 24 percent. Corporations sit on their cash piles. Algorithms drive Americans to the news that comforts their prejudices and stokes their anger. No wonder ideological division has become so paralyzing in Washington.
Leonard Pitts looks at the other side of 9/11 to see what we can learn by sifting the trash left behind by bin Laden.
In some ways, arguably the most telling revelation is the most recent. U.S. officials poring over bin Laden?s writings say the world?s number one terrorist had concluded that he ? or, more accurately, al Qaeda ? had an image problem.Very good point. So good that someone else may be writing a piece about this. Say, in this space about two hours from now.Having killed too many Muslims, the group had, he thought, alienated much of the Muslim world. Murdering your customer base will tend to have that effect. ... There are two particularly effective methods for manipulating people. The first is to create fear. Fearful people ? the last decade of American history proves this ? are easily stampeded.
The New York Times points up that the Defense of Marriage Act requires the government to constantly engage in discriminatory behavior.
The many couples who will take advantage of New York?s new marriage equality law will not be married in the eyes of Washington. ... they cannot receive Social Security benefits for spouses ... cannot file joint federal income tax returns ... If they work for the federal government, they cannot extend their health insurance policy to their spouses. A childless soldier with a same-sex spouse will not receive the housing allowance for dependents, even after ?don?t ask, don?t tell? is fully repealed.
And what about repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell? NYT editors also remind us that this remains unfinished business.
t has been six months since Congress voted to allow military service by openly gay, lesbian and bisexual Americans, but the law banning their service is still in effect. The Pentagon has not certified that the military is ready for the change, and while that process needlessly drags on, soldiers continue to be discharged for acknowledging their sexuality.Get on it, Leon.
Virginia Heffernan admits that it can be difficult to see the value in violent games, but points out that the audience for games and the nature of gaming, isn't always what we expect.
Thanks to the explosion of mobile games that have drawn in the crossword and Sudoku crowd, adult women now make up a bigger proportion of gamers (37 percent) than do boys 17 or younger (13 percent), according to a study by the Entertainment Software Association. ... Sometimes, when you don?t know exactly what?s going on, you need to keep the parameters of boredom and frustration narrow. You need to confront rigged cartoonish challenges that, as it happens, you can ? with pleasurable effort ? perfectly meet. Games, like nothing else, give a break from the feeling that you?re either too dumb or too smart for this world.
Frank Bruni says that kids may not be dominant in the gaming market, but they do dominate one area of our lives: politics.
In its infancy (pardon the term), this campaign season has already become excessively showy with exhibitionist parenting. Just last week President Obama asserted that Congressional Republicans, playing brinkmanship with the deadline for raising the debt ceiling, should emulate his daughters, Malia, 12, and Sasha, 10.If we're going to declare that our kids are "off limits" to politics, then what about... making kids off limits to politics?...
At least the president shows more restraint than many of his Republican challengers, who used the opening minutes of their presidential debate a few weeks ago to engage in a kind of reproductive arms race, each of them one-upping the other on the fecundity front.
Rick Santorum mentioned his seven children. Michele Bachmann followed up by plugging her five children and her 23 foster kids, making the latter sound like permanent charges rather than the temporary lodgers they were. Mitt Romney ticked off five sons, five daughters-in-law and, lest he let Bachmann lap him, 16 grandchildren.
Then Ron Paul outpaced them all. Instead of giving a count of his own kids (five), he tallied roughly 4,000 lives that he, as a physician, had helped usher into the world. Go, babies, go.
George Will wants you to know that he's not a crazy, paranoid ideologue. Got that? OK, now here's how Democrats in 1977 were to blame for the 2008 fiscal crisis.
Dana Milbank isn't laughing about Stephen Colbert's latest trip to D.C.
Colbert set out to prove how flimsy campaign finance limits have become since the Supreme Court?s Citizens United ruling, and the SuperPAC he created is egregious enough, allowing contributions of any size. But what he proposes to do isn?t nearly as abusive as what?s already going on. While Colbert?s PAC has to release the names of people who give him more than $200, the campaign finance vehicles preferred by Karl Rove allow individuals to give millions of dollars to elect candidates without the donors? names becoming public.The structure of Colbert SuperPAC is so limited that, campaign finance experts said, there was no need for him to seek permission from the FEC. And that?s the trouble: The real campaign finance abuses are more horrible than Colbert?s fiction.
New Scientist is not suggesting that if you skip the hot dogs and concentrate on the brews you'll come out of this weekend younger than you went in, but...
As the cells get older, they acquire clumps of proteins and extra pieces of DNA, but when Angelika Amon at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and colleagues tracked spores from old and young yeast cells they found that such abnormalities disappeared, meaning all spores had the same lifespan.My prediction: when I'm 80, science will find a way to stop aging. When I'm dead +1 day, they'll discover a way to reverse it, with immortality for a side dish. The rest of you just need to hang on.
And for Pete's sake, be careful with those fireworks.
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Two other clinics were earlier refused licenses and have filed their own lawsuits.
Bonnie Scott Jones, an attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights [said]: ?That?s certainly better than no one being open, but it?s certainly not enough to meet the needs of the women of Kansas.?
Planned Parenthood filed suit Thursday in the expectation that it would not be licensed, a move a state anti-abortion leader had the nerve to call "theatrics."
Representatives of the other two clinics, Aid for Women and the Center for Women?s Health, will appear in U.S. District Court this afternoon. A brief for one of the lawsuits contends the licensing rules, which were enacted in May, impose a ?number of ambiguous and unclear requirements? on the clinics. ?As a whole, the temporary regulations impose burdensome and costly requirements that are not medically necessary or appropriate and that are not imposed on Kansas medical providers performing other comparable procedures.?
The new licensing law requires clinics to be inspected twice a year, including one unannounced review. It also spells out standards for operations, supplies, facilities and medical procedures.The regulations total 36 pages. Among other things, they require any physician performing an abortion to have clinical privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic. They also require each facility to have drugs and equipment to deal with a medical crisis such as a heart attack or an allergic reaction to medication.
While some of the regulations seem reasonable, it's hard to justify others on any grounds but pure harassment. Facilities offering outpatient surgery other than abortion are not governed by similar rules. Not for nothing are these called TRAP laws, that is, "targeted regulation of abortion providers." Just another weapon with which anti-choice crusaders seek to make legal abortions ever more difficult to obtain. Nationwide, with hundreds of new laws introduced since January and more than 85 so far enacted, the crusaders have had a very successful year.
They didn't manage to get everything they wanted in Kansas. But it was a close call. And nobody who has followed the long-running Kansas abortion fight thinks this will be the last round.
Earlier this week, Peter Brownlie, president of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, said that after 20 hours of inspection over two days, he was sure the clinic had met all the requirements included in the regulations. But he hinted that he would not be surprised if no licenses were given. The regulations weren't finalized until June 17, giving the clinics little time to correct any deficiencies found by inspectors, who did not complete their work until late last week.
A week ago, Brownlie told Rebekah Dryden at the Rachel Maddow blog:
"It?s sort of absurd that Republican leadership in Kansas and that Governor [Sam] Brownback, who say?and I believe them?that they?re opposed to abortion for any reason, at any time, are taking action that will make it more difficult for people to avoid unplanned pregnancies which result in abortion. We've repeatedly called on the governor and the legislature to help prevent unintended pregnancies and the math is pretty simple and pretty clear. Half of all pregnancies in this country are unintended. Forty percent of those result in abortion. Yet what this state is doing is reducing access to family planning in pursuit of their political agenda."
The extremist anti-choice forces aren't about women's health, as the supporters of clinic licensing regulations like to pretend. They aren't just waging war on abortion clinics but on contraception itself through the "personhood redefinition movement" that would assign personhood rights to fertilized eggs. By attacking contraception, they are in fact ensuring that there will be more abortions. By making legal abortion harder to obtain, they guarantee that illegal ones will be sought. Like all extremists, they can't be reasoned with, or compromised with, or negotiated with. They must, instead, be confronted everywhere they pursue their anti-sex, anti-woman ideology. Reproductive rights are no luxury.
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