Posted a few minutes ago Sometimes Ernest Hemingway stops by the BuzzFeed offices and demands that we let him weigh in on something, and we acquiesce because we don't want to get punched. This is one of those times.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And dammit LeBron you've brought this on yourself.Dammit, you and your good friends have put yourselves in the maw of the beast and now you know what that's like. The maw of an American beast that chews up and spits out those who betray their homelands because that is not how America works, America is a true and honest country and you have fled your place of birth like a jackrabbit skipping across the mesa. Cleveland. The thought of Cleveland may make me dive straight into ... Continue reading →
Mitt Romney told nightline that his favorite novel was Huckleberry Finn. Now his has given his critics a chance to say that he has even flip-flopped on this.I’m dumbfounded. Mitt Romney was a valedictorian English Major.This sitehttp://www.youtube.com/mittromneylists his favorite books as:Huckleberry Finn, What It Takes, Theodore Rex, The World Is Flat , 1776, The Purpose Driven Life. The West’s Last Chance…He lists other books on his facebook, and myspace profile. People have been asking him this question a long time…If you go here, I think you can see evidence that Mitt Romney is the best read author out of all the candidates:http://myclob.pbwiki.com/booksHere are some of the things he has said about the books he has read:“But number five, the culture of America is under attack. ... Continue reading →
May 22, 2012 05:33 PM Leaders of Tomorrow by Daniel Luzer And now, the Princeton rap. Students can’t leave college without producing the awkward music video, right? The latest contribution comes from three women at Princeton: This could be really dumb, but it’s actually pretty awesome. Most serious school pride is sort of lame but I’ve got to say, when it’s really, really aggressive, it’s sort of endearing. Technically Penn is also Ivy but, you know, not the same sort of Ivy. Daniel Luzer is the web editor of the Washington Monthly. Follow him on Twitter at @Daniel_Luzer. Continue reading →
Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) is the co-sponsor of two controversial amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act: one which would ban the use of indefinite detention for any accused Terrorist apprehended on U.S. soil (the House rejected that amendment earlier this week), and the other, as Michael Hastings first reported, which would repeal a long-standing prohibition under the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 on the dissemination inside the U.S. of State Department information campaigns (what the State Department calls “public diplomacy” and what others call “state propaganda”). Rep. Smith was my guest today on Salon Radio to discuss both of his proposed amendments, and the 15-minute interview, which heavily focuses on his Smith-Mundt proposal, can be heard on the player below (the Smith-Mundt discussion begins at ... Continue reading →
Prepare for an incoming transmission: Flickr/Steven HegerLate last Friday, Buzzfeed reporter and Rolling Stone contributor Michael Hastings broke what looked like a big scoop: Congress was quietly planning to lift a 64-year-old law preventing the US government from using propaganda on its own citizenry. Before the House passed its defense-budget bill Friday afternoon, Hastings reported, a bipartisan group of congressmen tacked on an amendment that would "essentially neutralize" a set of time-tested guidelines "that had been passed to protect U.S. audiences from our own government's misinformation campaigns." Progressive thinkers balked at the news: Mideast expert Juan Cole decried the amendment as "the creeping fascism of American politics...by our representatives, who apparently have never read a book on Germany in the 1930s-1940s or on the Soviet ... Continue reading →
Prepare for an incoming transmission: Flickr/Steven HegerLate last Friday, Buzzfeed reporter and Rolling Stone contributor Michael Hastings broke what looked like a big scoop: Congress was quietly planning to lift a 64-year-old law preventing the US government from using propaganda on its own citizenry. Before the House passed its defense-budget bill Friday afternoon, Hastings reported, a bipartisan group of congressmen tacked on an amendment that would "essentially neutralize" a set of time-tested guidelines "that had been passed to protect U.S. audiences from our own government's misinformation campaigns." Progressive thinkers balked at the news: Mideast expert Juan Cole decried the amendment as "the creeping fascism of American politics...by our representatives, who apparently have never read a book on Germany in the 1930s-1940s or on the Soviet ... Continue reading →
The Wagist and Conservative Tree House exposed video of Trayvon Martin attending and possibly refereeing a local fight club brawl in Miami. The video was uploaded on Trayvon Martin’s YouTube Channel. At least, the video “Anthony vs. Curtis” was there last month. But, after his death the video was later scrubbed from his YouTube Channel. Here is the YouTube account today. The video “Anthony vs. Curtis” has since been re-uploaded to YouTube. The video shows Trayvon engaged in actual and intentional violent conduct. You’ll notice Trayvon in the video, wearing a white cap with the striped shirt. You can hear his name called out about 5 seconds into the video. You can also see Trayvon’s tattoo in the video. The address of the home pictured ... Continue reading →
