Wonderful Book: "Great American Hypocrites" by Glenn Greenwald. It exposes the discrepancy between GOP talk and reality. A similar book could be written about the Democrats, but it would be less extreme, since the Democrats are guilty of the same fault to a lesser degree. It is also a vocal critique of the establishment / mainstream media for their preference to depict and comment on the meaningless realm of politics, at the expense of treatment of policy, which actually is important.
Here is an interesting editorial from Frank Rich. He describes: 1) How Republicans have "condemned" in very uncertain terms the deliberate plane crash at the IRA building, which differs from the OK City bombing only in the number of victims. 2) The estrangement between the Republican Party and the Teabagger movement, which is essentially libertarian. 3) The disturbingly violent anti-government comments that are increasingly common in GOP and Teabagger discourse.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28rich.html
A thought recently occurred to me: Sarah Palin is the logical conclusion of George W. Bush. She is everything he is, but more so.
The increasingly beneficial role of religious organizations in 3rd world relief and development. The flipside is adoption farce in Haiti. The woman who organized it had no experience with adoption, let alone international adoption, and she was being sued for back wages from former employees. The road to hell is more quickly paved with the good intentions of idiots.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28kristof.html
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