"The gentlemanly 91-year-old is not going gentle into that good night. He finally spit out what he had been obsessing about privately for so long: Why did Cheney, 41’s loyal defense secretary, turn so belligerent and unilateral, “knuckling under to the real hard-charging guys who want to fight about everything and use force to get our way in the Middle East”? How did the neocons manage to push his son’s administration into pursuing their foolish agenda of refashioning the Middle East at the point of a gun?
He ultimately faults his son for the administration’s deadly embrace of Cheney and the neocons and for allowing Cheney to create his own national security apparatus, noting: “But it’s not Cheney’s fault. It’s the president’s fault,” adding at another point, “The buck stops there.”
Poppy Bush Finally Gives Junior a Spanking - The New York Times
Sunday, November 08, 2015
Why Are Asian-Americans Such Loyal Democrats? - The New York Times
Today’s Asian Americans are not only liberal on the expected issues like health care reform, immigration reform, and educational reform, but they also seem to espouse liberal views across a wide range of unexpected issue areas like environmental politics, affirmative action, and the like. We even find, in our 2012 National Asian American Survey, that nearly 2 out of every 3 Asian Americans who report earning more than $250,000/year supported an approach to reducing the federal budget deficit that would raise taxes on those earning more than $250,000-a-year
Why Are Asian-Americans Such Loyal Democrats? - The New York Times
Why Are Asian-Americans Such Loyal Democrats? - The New York Times
Saturday, November 07, 2015
Twitter's 'blind spots' on diversity Leslie Miley, former Engineering Manager at Twitter, joins to discuss why diversity should be a priority for large tech companies like Twitter. In this segment, we described the employment at Twitter as such: 2% black, 59% white, 29% Asian, and 3%... Melissa Harris-Perry on MSNBC
Ben Carson just can’t quit lying: CNN can’t corroborate any of the key stories from his autobiography
"Carson claims to have punched a seventh-grade classmate in the head while holding a lock, and attempted to stab a classmate named “Bob” in ninth grade, but CNN spoke to nine people who knew him at the time — two of whom lived next door to the Carsons and knew young Ben well — and not a single one of them could corroborate his stories.
Carson has said that this is because he was ashamed of his temper and hid it from the world, but the incident in seventh grade allegedly happened at school, where one classmate, Gerald Ware, said that if it had happened, “it would have been all over the school.”
Carson wrote in “Gifted Hands” that people who didn’t know him as a youth would “think I’m exaggerating when I say I had a bad temper,” but even the people who did know him believe he’s exaggerating.
“He got through his day trying not to be noticed,” Robert Collier told CNN. “I remember him having a pocket saver. He had thick glasses. He was skinny and unremarkable.”
Melissa Harris-Perry on MSNBC - The ripple effects of China's one-child policy In an effort to boost economic growth and confront and aging population lacking caretakers, China is now allowing couples to have two children for the first time in more than three decades. Author Mei Fong joins Melissa Harris-Perry.
Friday, November 06, 2015
Sunday, November 01, 2015
It’s Not Brain Surgery, Ben Carson
It’s Not Brain Surgery, Ben Carson
"HE has said there is “no overwhelming science” to support human-induced climate change. He has compared a body riddled with bullets to the notion of gun control and declared the latter to be “more devastating.” He has hedged on the question of childhood vaccine safety to suggest that “a multitude of vaccines” backed by decades of conclusive research ought to be considered with “discretion.”
The retired pediatric neurosurgeon and Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has used his doctor badge to wade into uncomfortable, and unscientific, conversations."
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