Hold Fast

Tim Wise is one of the most dynamic and smart anti-racism theorists out there. I deeply respect his work, which is why I have a lot of trouble with his latest post, going after Glenn Greenwald and others on the liberal side of the aisle for discussing the positive aspects of Ron Paul’s presidential campaign. [...]

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The half-hour documentary on Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital, When Mitt Romney Came To Town, is a huge story this week. Watch it – it’s devastating and the interviews of workers who lost their jobs after Romney’s Bain came in and broke their companies are heart-breaking. “When Mitt Romney Came To Town” is the [...]

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Like Atrios, I have no idea who is assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists. Odds are that it’s the US or Israel or both. But this is unquestionably terrorism. Advocating for the murder of civilians, as Glenn Reynolds did in the Bush years and Rick Santorum is doing now is clearly sick. But actually perpetrating these attacks [...]

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Cross-posted from AMERICAblog Elections: The Right’s Field NH Results: Mitt Romney 39.4% (94,255) Ron Paul: 22.8% (54,513) Jon Huntsman: 16.9% (40,388) Newt Gingrich: 9.4% (22,518) Rick Santorum: 9.3% (22,293) Rick Perry: 0.7% (1,688) A few thoughts… Attention reporters: Mitt Romney is not the first Republican non-incumbent to win Iowa and New Hampshire, as Romney neither [...]

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Via Yves Smith, Financial Times is reporting new developments in the talks between the nation’s five largest banks, 40+ state Attorneys General, and the Obama administration around robosigning and foreclosure fraud. Not so shockingly, the news isn’t good: Investors in US home mortgage bonds may have to swallow losses as part of a wide-ranging settlement [...]

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Glenn Greenwald has another must-read post in the ongoing debate about the ways in which Ron Paul may or may not be better than President Obama on particular issues and the subsequent mania which these ideas bring forth within many parts of the liberal blogosphere. Greenwald is kind enough to quote a passage from a [...]

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Renowned exiled Tibetan author and poet Jamyang Norbu has one of the most thoughtful analysis of 2011′s epidemic of self-immolations by young Tibetan monks and nuns inside of Tibet – you can read it on his blog Shadow Tibet. His analysis looks at historic instances of self-immolation as a political act by practitioners of Buddhism [...]

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Matt Taibbi on the 2012 elections: Most likely, it’ll be Mitt Romney versus Barack Obama, meaning the voters’ choices in the midst of a massive global economic crisis brought on in large part by corruption in the financial services industry will be a private equity parasite who has been a lifelong champion of the Gordon [...]

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Originally posted at AMERICAblog Elections: The Right’s Field The final Iowa results: Romney, 24.55% (30,015 votes) Santorum, 24.54% (30,007 votes) Ron Paul, 21.45% (26,219 votes) Gingrich, 13.29% (16,251 votes) Perry, 10.3% (12,604 votes) Bachmann, 4.97% (6,073 votes) Huntsman (745 votes) No preference (135 votes) Other (117 votes) Cain (58 votes) Roemer (31 votes) Kombiz and [...]

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For what it’s worth, yesterday’s post on Ron Paul and the debate he has sparked in the progressive blogosphere focused on the fact that Paul was the only major party candidate holding positions traditionally held by liberals regarding civil liberties, war and peace, domestic surveillance, and drug policy. While this is true, Gary Johnson, the [...]

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