Category Archives: Politics

Obama Blunder Coming Up

Posted on February 21, 2008 by dowbrigade

According to our calculations, Barak Obama is due to suffer a campaign-crippling mishap sometime in the next two weeks. It could be a spectacular misstatement or a subtle slur let slip almost unnoticed in tonight’s debate, a financial scandal emerging … Continue reading →

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The Party’s Over

Posted on February 18, 2008 by dowbrigade

Barak Obama is not a black version of John Kennedy. He is a pathetic but apparently successful attempt to repackage tired political hackery as this season’s hot new reality show. And yet, he is not what is wrong with American … Continue reading →

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The Old Man and the “C”

Posted on February 5, 2008 by dowbrigade

So this is what American democracy has come down to. A national charade, made for TV, scripted years in advance, to entertain the public across the country and around the world with a professionally produced perversion of the democratic process … Continue reading →

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Barack’s Stardom a Clinton Production

Posted on January 31, 2008 by dowbrigade

Somewhere in a well-appointed private suite in a major American downtown hotel, in late 2003, Bill and Hillary Clinton sat over a Pu Pu Platter and plotted out the drama which is currently unfolding on the great American political stage. … Continue reading →

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Market Hits High – What Are They Smoking?

Posted on October 1, 2007 by dowbrigade

  The Dow Jones industrial average opened the fourth quarter by soaring more than 200 points at one point, putting the index well above its previous high set in July. At the close, the Dow was up 191.92 points, or … Continue reading →

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Deval Wimps Out on Gaming

Posted on September 28, 2007 by dowbrigade

Governor Deval Patrick expressed reservations yesterday about licensing a casino in any Massachusetts city, clouding the prospects for hotly debated proposals to build resort-style gambling complexes in Boston and New Bedford. “I have some misgivings about a casino in any … Continue reading →

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Why We’re Not Worried

Posted on July 15, 2007 by dowbrigade

Recently, the news has been full of the intestinal ruminations of US Secretary of Homeland Security, who abruptly announced last week that he had a “gut feeling” that the US was about to be attacked by foreign terrorists. The major … Continue reading →

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He Just Doesn’t Get It!

Posted on May 31, 2007 by dowbrigade

U.S. President George W. Bush holds the hand of four year-old Baron Mosima Loyiso Tantoh after presenting the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington May 30, 2007. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED … Continue reading →

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Pope Ratso Called Out on Indian Genocide

Posted on May 19, 2007 by dowbrigade

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez demanded Pope Benedict apologize to Indians in Latin America for saying this month in Brazil that the Roman Catholic Church purified them. Chavez, who regularly clashes with the Catholic Church in Venezuela but … Continue reading →

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ICE Melts Under Potential Case Load

Posted on May 18, 2007 by dowbrigade

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators and President Bush agreed yesterday to a potentially historic deal on an immigration bill that would give 12 million undocumented residents the chance to become legal Americans while beefing up border security and … Continue reading →

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Weep for the Scholars of Palestine

Posted on May 18, 2007 by dowbrigade

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – Israeli planes pounded Hamas targets and rival Palestinian factions exchanged bursts of automatic weapons fire outside Gaza City‘s Islamic University on Friday, as a volatile mix of Israeli strikes and Palestinian infighting plunged Gaza … Continue reading →

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Sending Colombians to Afghanistan – Brilliant!

Posted on May 16, 2007 by dowbrigade

According to the New York Times, the US is trying to turn Afghanistan into another Colombia – that is, convert a warlord based, heavily armed narco-insurgency into a warlord-based, heavily armed narco-democracy. They have even imported Colombian troops and advisers … Continue reading →

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