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• Iranian Protesters Are Dying for Freedom – Where is Barack Obama?

  Posted December 28th, 2009 at 11:06am in American Leadership with 8 comments

  I wrote back in June about the shameful silence of the Obama administration during the mass street protests that greeted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s fraudulent re-election victory as President of Iran. As White House spokesman Robert Gibbs ludicrously put it, the administration was “impressed by the vigorous debate and enthusiasm this election generated.” Or in Vice President [...] More

• White House Balks at ClimateGate, Says Climate Change is Happening

  Posted December 1st, 2009 at 2:49pm in Energy and Environment with 27 comments

  When asked about ClimateGate, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs dismissed its importance, emphasizing that “climate change is happening.” Of course climate change is happening. Soon we’ll be calling press conferences to declare, “The earth is moving” or “It’s going to get dark tonight.” The reality is the climate has been changing ever since there was [...] More

• The People v. Gibbs

  Posted August 5th, 2009 at 2:40pm in Ongoing Priorities with 1 comments

  In 1953, the German playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote of the Soviet suppression of a spring uprising in Berlin, Would it not be easier, In that case for the government, To dissolve the people And elect another? Why quote a communist bootlicker and Stalin hagiographer best known for socialist realism, whatever that means? Because in that single moment of apparent weakness, [...] More