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Libby Spencer commented on the diary post Incentive to outsource by Libby Spencer.
Agree on both points. I particularly wish progressives would recruit and run more candidates. Nothing is going to change until we get some real ones in office.
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Libby Spencer wrote a new diary post: Incentive to Outsource
If you needed any more proof that tax incentives to big business don’t and will never solve the unemployment crisis, the NYT shows us how current tax policy is a disincentive for hiring . In fact, it doesn’t even encourage domestic spending on capital goods.
Two years into the recovery, hiring is still painfully slow. The economy [...]
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Libby Spencer commented on the diary post Boehner Refuses To Honor Successful bin Laden Mission by Libby Spencer.
Thanks for the thoughtful answer Margo. Admit I don’t know much about international criminal law, but The Hague is the first venue I thought of. However, I’m under the impression that it isn’t that easy to get The Hague to take a case. As for trying him in a US court, didn’t the Congress recently [...]
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Libby Spencer commented on the diary post Boehner Refuses To Honor Successful bin Laden Mission by Libby Spencer.
No that’s not what I said. And since I’m new here, let me state for the record that I don’t argue with people who read my words to mean what they want to argue about, instead of what I actually said. My question is still on the table. What country and what court? I seriously [...]
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Libby Spencer commented on the diary post Boehner Refuses To Honor Successful bin Laden Mission by Libby Spencer.
Exactly Ruth. Easy to support the abstract principle, harder to figure out how to uphold it in the real world. And I’m surprised at the willingness to believe the media narratives here, which have been at best, conflicting. I’m reminded of the Fort Hood killings. It took weeks, maybe months before the real story every [...]
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Libby Spencer commented on the diary post Boehner Refuses To Honor Successful bin Laden Mission by Libby Spencer.
The comments are drifting away from my original point, which was to highlight the GOP hypocrisy in refusing to issue a meaningless resolution as they have thousands of times before. But to answer the general drift here, I worked in a law firm for 20 years. Believe me when I tell you that the rule [...]
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Libby Spencer commented on the diary post Boehner Refuses To Honor Successful bin Laden Mission by Libby Spencer.
Easy to judge when you’re not the one risking your life and having to make instant judgments under fire. And I wouldn’t be so certain about the details. They’re still evolving through a media filter that has proved untrustworthy at best.
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Libby Spencer commented on the diary post Boehner Refuses To Honor Successful bin Laden Mission by Libby Spencer.
Actually, the post is about GOP hypocrisy. But I do think the SEALs should be honored for their bravery without consideration for the politics.
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Libby Spencer commented on the diary post Boehner Refuses To Honor Successful bin Laden Mission by Libby Spencer.
Admit, I’m wrestling with my own conscience on this. On its face, the execution betrays everything I believe in. Every principle I ever fought for. Yet, while I wasn’t happy when it happened, I find I’m unable to condemn the means when the ends serve such an important purpose. And I’m so sure it could [...]
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Libby Spencer commented on the diary post Boehner Refuses To Honor Successful bin Laden Mission by Libby Spencer.
Distilling it down to its simplest essence, Obama — to put it crudely — blew the face off the most potent symbol of 9/11 and the ensuing “war on terra.” The GOPers lost their “soft on terror” narrative for 2012 and possibly beyond. And for the millions of politically unengaged and underinformed Americans, the 9/11 [...]
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Libby Spencer commented on the diary post Boehner refuses to honor successful bin Laden mission by Libby Spencer.
It’s not about the military worship, it’s the hypocrisy of the party that raised military worship to a high art now ignoring the biggest military success in the so-called “war on terra.” Whether the execution of Osama is something to be celebrated is a separate issue. Hey Ruth. I agree, it is amusing to see [...]
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Libby Spencer wrote a new diary post: Boehner Refuses To Honor Successful bin Laden Mission
The Senate already passed their own resolution but Speaker Boehner won’t allow the House to honor the team that took down bin Laden . Boehner cites the new House rules passed along party lines in January that “prohibit the consideration of any measure that “expresses appreciation, commends, congratulates, celebrates, recognizes the accomplishments of, or celebrates the anniversary [...] -
Libby Spencer commented on the diary post Osama bin Laden Is Dead But Corporate Welfare Lives Forever by Libby Spencer.
It’s really astounding how shameless the GOPers are now. They figured out their base has zero historical memory beyond American Idol and they know the media won’t call them out, so they make no attempt to hide their agenda. Thinking their biggest success is in discovering they could pre-emptively accuse the Dems of dirty deeds [...]
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Libby Spencer wrote a new diary post: Osama bin Laden Is Dead But Corporate Welfare Lives Forever
When I originally posted this on my own little blog the news cycle was all about Donald Trump’s hurt feelings after the White House Correspondents Dinner. I anticipated we would endure several more days of that narrative but, of course, events intervened and now our media mavens are obsessed with Osama’s death. But whatever the [...] -
Libby Spencer commented on the diary post Do You Know It’s 4/20? What’s That Mean Again? by Libby Spencer.
Damn. Somehow I left off my original title which was Waiting to Exhale but I’m glad to see Bill covered me. And yeah, we have come a long way. When I started blogging eight years ago, it was to promote drug policy reform. In fact, I was one of the first orginal drug policy bloggers. [...]
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Libby Spencer wrote a new diary post: Do You Know It’s 4/20? What’s That Mean Again?
Well it’s 420 and if you just got on the internets yesterday for the first time, this refers to the “pot smokers’ holiday” based on a code phrase of undetermined origins for meeting up to smoke some. Anyway, what better day to take a look at our current crop of presidential wannabes’ position on the [...]
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Libby Spencer and Karin are now friends
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Libby Spencer commented on the diary post Alternative Realities by Libby Spencer.
Thanks for the encouragement. Appreciate it. Especially today. The Village Idiots and their media lapdogs are making me crazy with their misleading government shutdown narratives. Surprised they haven’t broken any bones, what with all the extreme contortions trying to lay the blame on the Dems.
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Libby Spencer and Ruth Calvo are now friends
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Libby Spencer wrote a new diary post: Alternative Realities
(Editorial Note: Everyone please welcome Libby Spencer to the Lake! We are hoping to hear a lot more from her in the future) As I’m sifting through the commentary on Ryan’s *very serious* budget proposal, I keep recalling how at the beginning of the Iraq war, as the Bush admininstration’s false narratives were being exposed, how [...] - Load More
