A Lucrative Deal for Rush Limbaugh - Readers' Comments - The New York Times

A Lucrative Deal for Rush Limbaugh - Readers' Comments - The New York Times: "It just goes to show you that certain drug addicts and liars do well in the right wing political climate that arose with the sainted Ronald Reagan and will (we fervently hope) fade a bit with the departure of G.W. Bush.
— dbsweden, Sweden"

A Lucrative Deal for Rush Limbaugh - Readers' Comments - The New York Times

A Lucrative Deal for Rush Limbaugh - Readers' Comments - The New York Times: "we are so in awe of wealth in america, we dare not admit that what we are extolling is insatiable greed, so many who claim to be God fearing christians, or the voice of honest 'decent folk' lap up the cash"

Cafe Talk | Talking Points Memo | Dobson a member The Family?

Cafe Talk | Talking Points Memo | Dobson a member The Family?: "I heard an interview with Jeff Sharlet on the Diane Rehn show yesterday. Sharlet is the author of a new book called The Family: the secret fundamentalism at the heart of American power. The Family aka The Fellowship aka many other names is composed of cells of powerful unorthodox Christian fundamentalists.

The organization began in the 1930s or 1940s. It's founder received a revelation from God telling him that the Christians had been preaching the wrong message for 2000 years. God told him that He doesn't actually care about the poor and weak and ill. His concerns are with the powerful. The powerful people are the receivers of of His beneficence and the powers will then award what they want to the poor, the weak and the ill. It's a trickle down effect...sound familiar"

Video: FOX Reporter Squashed by Father's Words on Wright

Video: FOX Reporter Squashed by Father's Words on WrightThere has been a lot of hate in this country ever since Reagan. Maybe it's the way this country should end, but it will go on. These haters will climb back under the rock from which they came. Eventually new ones will take their places. It's just the human condition. Makes you sad. Doesn't it?

Inflatable electric car can drive off cliffs

Inflatable electric car can drive off cliffs: "'Research shows that the metal in your car is the largest cause of death and injury,' the company explains on its Web site. 'The shrapnel, body compression immobility, lung compression, dismemberment and other serious results of a crash are most often caused by the inflexibility of metal and the permanent deformation of the body of the metal car around or into your body. Hence the need for, and name of, the Jaws of Life.'"

The Patriot Post - Opinions - But is it True?

The Patriot Post - Opinions - But is it True?: "He believes the invasion of Iraq was “a serious strategic blunder,' that the decision to invade Iraq was “a fateful misstep” born in part of the shock of 9/11 but also of “an air of invincibility” sharpened by the surprisingly and “deceptively” quick initial military success in Afghanistan. He scores President Bush's “certitude” and “self-deceit” and asserts the decision to invade Iraq was tied to the president's lust for legacy, need for boldness, and grandiose notions as to what is possible in the Mideast"

So McClellan is correct when he writes senior administration officials began a campaign in 2002 to "aggressively sell the war," even as he and other officials insisted all options were on the table. Of course, it was a war of choice, not of necessity, as he writes. The Bush administration's main motive for invading Iraq was to introduce "coercive democracy."

This motive originated in a controversial 1996 White Paper titled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," which referred to Israel. It advised incoming Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to repeal the Oslo agreements for a Palestinian solution, keep Gaza and the West Bank under Israeli control, and establish democracy in Iraq by overthrowing Saddam Hussein. Democracy in Iraq, said "Clean Break," would be followed by similar regime changes in Syria and Iran. Thus, Israel could begin to relax and look forward to real security for the indefinite future.

Among its principal authors were neocon theoreticians Richard Perle, soon to be chairman of the Defense Policy Board; Douglas Feith, who became undersecretary of defense for policy and was also in charge of post-Iraq invasion planning; ad David Wurmser, who later joined Feith's Pentagon team before his elevation to deputy assistant to Dick Cheney for national security -- all superhawks on Iran as well.