Ezra Looks Over There At the Debt-to-GDP Ratio

By: Tuesday October 19, 2010 9:41 pm

Ezra Klein did a piece yesterday offering the conventional deficit dove position on deficits and debt. Here’s a commentary on it.

State Dept. & CIA Help Blackwater Get Away With Smuggling & Treason

By: Friday August 20, 2010 9:58 pm

State Dept. & CIA Help Blackwater Get Away With Smuggling & Treason — by NormanB (“Deviations from the Norm”)

McCain’s Lobbyists Earn Their Keep Again

By: Tuesday October 7, 2008 8:04 pm

On Monday, China “canceled a series of military and diplomatic contacts with the United States” because of an arms sale to Taiwan. Well today John McCain:

issued a statement urging the administration to add submarines and F-16s aircraft to a $6 billion package of military equipment for Taiwan that the White House unveiled last week.

Revenge of the Dragon: China cancels military contacts with US

By: Monday October 6, 2008 4:50 pm

Last week, in the midst of the unfolding global “credit crunch” meltdown, the Bush people thought it would be a smashing good time to sell a few billion worth of arms to the mortal enemy of the country that’s propping up much of our debt load. Now that country, China, is fighting back. Wonderful.

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