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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
I don't always agree with the top man at Slate, but I'm inclined to here: This conventional wisdom about Obama's first year isn't just premature...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
By Michael J.W. Stickings Among my various musical preferences, I tend to like female singer-songwriters, and I recently discovered a great one in Erin McCarley , whose debut album, Love, Save the Empty , is simply wonderful. (For more on McCarley, see her Wikipedia entry .) All too often, debut albums by new singer-songwriters are weak, top-heavy with one or two catchy singles...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
By Michael J.W. Stickings According to Ezra Klein , Howard Dean, once thought to be a leading health-care guru in the Democratic Party, thinks that "this bill is worthless and should be defeated" -- if if doesn't include a public option. Like Ezra, and as I've written here many times, I'm a supporter of the public option and want Democrats to push for its inclusion, preferably...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Michael J.W. Stickings I'll be adding to this throughout the night. Stay tuned for updates. ********** As expected, it was an admirable speech , regardless of the questionable content, but, then, we've come to expect such rhetorical flights from Obama. The tone was serious, which it had to be, and, on the whole, the president made his case effectively, I thought. But do we buy...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Michael J.W. Stickings This. Is. Hilarious. Allow me to post extensively from Geoffrey Dunn's HuffPo post on one of the more awful errors in Sarah Palin's Going Rogue : There have been so many lies and distortions pointed out in Sarah Palin's Going Rogue since it was released last week that her memoir has already become something of a gag line. But perhaps the most embarrassing...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Michael J.W. Stickings I posted yesterday on the "Anti-Homosexuality Bill" currently working its way through Uganda's Parliament. It's a despicable piece of legislation that, if enacted, would impose life imprisonment and even capital punishment for gays. The legislator who intoduced the bill, David Bahati, is a member of " The Family ," an American right-wing...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
By Michael J.W. Stickings One of my favourite writers on national security and military policy is Slate 's Fred Kaplan, who had a great piece up yesterday on his ambivalance with respect to the Afghan War. (Obama is set to announce his plan tonight. It will likely involve sending tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan and shifting the strategy to counterinsurgency, "which...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
By Michael J.W. Stickings Our Headline of the Day comes from the geniuses at The Washington Post , who apparently couldn't pass up an opportunity to state the obvious: Palin particularly popular among fans of Limbaugh and Beck . Hey, you know what, I bet she's real popular among fans of Hannity and Coulter, too, and maybe even of O'Reilly and Van Susteren. Oh, and among readers...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
By Michael J.W. Stickings BBC : Swiss voters have supported a referendum proposal to ban the building of minarets, official results show. More than 57% of voters and 22 out of 26 cantons -- or provinces -- voted in favour of the ban. The proposal had been put forward by the Swiss People's Party, (SVP), the largest party in parliament, which says minarets are a sign of Islamisation....
The Reaction (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
By Michael J.W. Stickings It's Uganda. So, honestly, what do you expect? Still, I'm all for the leaders of the Commonwealth, which happen to be far more liberal countries, doing all they can to pressure that severely repressive country to rethink its move to adopt such appalling legislation : Britain and Canada protested yesterday over a proposed law that would result in gays in...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
By Michael J.W. Stickings I don't always agree with the top man at Slate , but I'm inclined to here : This conventional wisdom about Obama's first year isn't just premature -- it's sure to be flipped on its head by the anniversary of his inauguration on Jan. 20. If, as seems increasingly likely, Obama wins passage of a health care reform a bill by that date, he will deliver his...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
By Michael J.W. Stickings The Vancouver Olympics haven't even happened yet and I'm already sick of them. Seriously, I wish this entire country would just shut up about them. I'll watch, yes, and I'll cheer on the Canadians, but the nationalism and self-glorification annoy me. And this -- this is embarrassing, appalling, and telling of what this country has become: U.S. journalist...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
By Michael J.W. Stickings CNN : A new group wants former Vice President Dick Cheney back in the White House. The organization -- "Draft Dick Cheney 2012" -- launched on Friday, and unveiled their new Web site . Their aim: To convince the former vice president to seek the Republican presidential nomination in the next race for the White House. How good would that be? I...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
By Michael J.W. Stickings To my American friends and family, to all of you Americans out there (the overwhelming majority of traffic to this blog comes from the U.S.), and especially to my American editors, co-bloggers and contributors here at The Reaction , as well as to my many American friends and acquaintances throughout the blogosphere, I wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving,...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
By Michael J.W. Stickings I've been meaning to post for a while now on the whole "climategate" thing, the supposed scandal uncovered in those hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climactic Research Unit. Global warming skeptics/denialists on the right are obviously making a big deal of those e-mails. What they seem to think is that they reveal some sort...
