Ain’t no difference like no difference.

“What I would like to know is, Why in the hell do a bunch of Rednecks get all weepy over the idea of the Twin Towers falling in New York when it was full of a bunch of bankers and lawyers? These were people they hate in a city that they hate,” asks SpitfireOFatj via YouTube.

Forget The Left. And f*ck The Right. It’s Time to Move Beyond The Two-Wing Spectrum.

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010. Boehner comes to Bush Tax Cut compromise, Gingrich done got crazier, and a record Saudi arms deal.

From TomDispatch today: A shocking report on the toll the American war has taken on ordinary Afghans, no matter what aspect of everyday life you choose to measure — Nick Turse, “How Much ‘Success’ Can Afghans Stand? The American War and Afghanistan’s Civilians”

President Obama appeared before the American people to formally declare the combat mission was officially over in Iraq. Obama discussed what Iraqis must do now that the U.S. has ended combat operations, re-affirmed America’s commitment to the war in Afghanistan, and ended with a focus on the economy and restoring the middle class in America.

From TomDispatch this morning: A stirring excerpt from Andrew Bacevich’s bestselling new book, Washington Rules, that focuses on how, as his Army career was ending, his real education, which would turn him into a leading critic of American war policy, began –Andrew Bacevich, “The Unmaking of a Company Man, An Education Begun in the Shadow of the Brandenburg Gate”

There is one undeniable difference between this president and that one.

Liars and Heroes.

It is uncomfortable and in some respects unreasonable to take to task those progressive Democrats who should be the biggest allies of social justice movements. This writer (who considers himself to be progressive) is in fact an ally of many of these Democrats. But the direction in which these progressives have led the Left is incredibly destructive to the future of this country and in fact the whole of humanity.