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in the Times about the way the Bush administration paid no attention to the 2001 memos warning them of Bin Laden’s intentions where our country was concerned.  . . up to and including the one little memo that Condoleeza Rice … Continue reading →

I was pleased to encounter as I walked down Broadway today toward Union Square a procession of teachers marching uptown in support of their striking Chicago brethren.   Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel is among the Democratic politicians who are now pushing the same scam … Continue reading →

In his convention address, he took out his customary heart to nuclear power.  You know, Fukushima and all.  Gregg Levine at firedoglake.com comments.

No matter how conservative the Democrat, the “mainstream” commercial media always is eager to tell him or her to go farther to the right.  FAIR deconstructs Newsweek’s latest gaffe.

Btw, the Liane Dayde interview came from a “Nuits Blanches” series of master classes in Paris organized by the Vestris Society.   On their site, augustevestris.fr., you can purchase a book in which they’ve collected the recollections by these dancers of … Continue reading →

Hullabaloo’s Digby on “the worst fact-check of all time.”

I write for City Arts about Mark Morris’s Dido and Aeneas at the Rose theater.

Sarah Jaffe writes on Alternet.org about the media enablers who’ve created a mythological Paul Ryan.

Yes, many Americans love bad actors, love them in politics.  But I don’t.  I find revolting the way that every time Paul Ryan is about to tell a whopper, no his nose doesn’t start extending, but he widens those baby … Continue reading →

From talkingpointsmemo.com: “Departure From Usual: Traditional Media Call Out Ryan For Factually Dubious Speech” Have the “mainstream” commercial media now realized that their credibility is so dubious that they must now actually start reporting fact and exposing fiction?