Antiwar movement and Tea Party must hang together or else hang separately
Third Party Daily The warfare state and the welfare state are inevitably linked, two sides of the same coin. The elites who run both of these scams have convinced many of those protesting against one to support the other through a false choice between the left and right sides of the same pyramid scheme – [...]
Categories: Politics Tags: choice, COIN, Daily, false choice, matt gonzalez, non sequitur, party, pyramid, warfare state, welfare state
Jim Lichtman: Who Do You Trust – Part II
Okay, time for the other side of the pundit coin. Alan Colmes, Arianna Huffington, Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews or Keith Olbermann. Whom, if any, do...
Categories: World Tags: Alan Colmes, Arianna Huffington, Association, COIN, jim lichtman, Keith Olbermann, New, Rachel Maddow, survey, www
Pippen, Malone: Don’t Hand Miami The Rings Just Yet
Scottie Pippen and Karl Malone entered the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame Friday night after two long careers that saw a lot of ups and downs, a lot of good teams and bad ones and of course a lot of championships. Given Pippen's experience winning...
Categories: Media Tags: basketball hall of fame, championship caliber, coach phil jackson, COIN, course, fame, history, pau gasol, scottie pippen, team
Jamal Simmons: Rangel’s Reckless Behavior Making Things Worse
I spent many days in junior high school sweeping floors and emptying coin machines around my stepfather's family's Laundromat, apartment building and grocery store on...
Categories: World Tags: Adam Clayton Powell, apartment, Charlie Rangel, COIN, congress, congressman charlie, Harlem, jamal simmons, Luke Russert, stepfather
Download Google Pacman: How To Still Play Without Google Doodle
The playable Google Pacman doodle on Google.com was taken down today, but you can still play the game if you download it. Several sites say they have Google Pacman for download, but be careful because some sites aren't reliable. However, thi...
Categories: World Tags: 30th anniversary, COIN, com, everything, Google, google doodle, insert coin, play, readme file, today
Jack Conway wins!
It's official. And guys, we can win Kentucky. (Or at least as official as it'll be until the results are certified.)
You guys starting to get excited? Let's celebrate by getting Conway some coin to use against Rand Paul!
Categories: Politics Tags: COIN, Conway, Daniel Mongiardo, Jack Conway, Kentucky, KY-Sen, official, Rand Paul
Rethink Afghanistan: Clinging to guns and counterinsurgency
The problem in Afghanistan is not picking the right or wrong counterinsurgency strategy, but picking any military strategy at all.
Categories: Politics Tags: Afghanistan, andrew exum, Anti-war, brave new foundation, Civilian Casualties, COIN, Commander David Petraeus, counterinsurgency, Derrick, development, development aid, diplomacy, eikenberry, Iraq, ISAF, Kabul, Kandahar, Karl Eikenberry, Laurent Saillard, military, Negotiations, NGOs, Night raids, Pakistan, pentagon leaders, policy failure, President, Rethink Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker, State Department, strategy, strategy reviews, taliban, U.S., U.S. Embassy, UK, US
General McChrystal has no idea what’s going on in Afghanistan
McChrystal and Eikenberry's plan for measuring progress is absolutely required if we care at all about the truth in Afghanistan. However, the variable in this plan is not necessarily the ability to produce these assessments, but access to the reliable, accurate information sources which provide the backbone of these assessments.
Categories: Politics Tags: Afghanistan, Anti-war, brave new foundation, campaign plan, citizen journalism, Civilian Casualties, COIN, drone strikes, eikenberry, government accountability office, Karl Eikenberry, measuring progress, Pakistan, progress assessments, Rethink Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal