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Is the GOP a Religion?

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Andrew Sullivan - Sep. 12 (News Analysis) - That's how I explain the current GOP. It can only think in doctrines, because the alternative is living in a complicated, global, modern world they both do not understand and also despise. Taxes are therefore always bad. Government is never good. Foreign enemies must be pre-emptively attacked. Islam is not a religion. Climate change is an elite conspiracy to impoverish America. Terror suspects are terrorists. When Americans torture, it is not torture. When Christians murder, they are not Christians. And if you change your mind on any of these issues, you are a liberal, an apostate, and will be attacked.' Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Beast

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The Economy Is Doomed Says Charles R. Morris

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:01:10 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Charles R. Morris - Aug. 11 (Opinion) - Over the last few days, global markets have been surging and collapsing like a teeny-bopper’s hormones. The Monday swoon was precipitated by the downgrading of the U.S. credit rating by one of the major credit agencies, while the Tuesday resurrection was in reaction to Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke’s promise to keep interest rates near zero in perpetuity if necessary. Neither of those was a real event. Treasury risk premiums fell after the credit action, and American banks and corporations are already sitting on some $3 trillion in cash that they can’t spend. More free money won’t change anything. Gloom descended again on Wednesday, this time because of credit worries in Europe, which is at least a real problem. A deeper reason for the high market anxiety, however, is the sad state of financial governance in both Europe and the United States. The paralyzing standoff between the two major American parties was dramatized by the idiocies of the debt-ceiling debate. President Obama’s Monday speech only added to the nervousness by underscoring how far apart the parties were.

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Obama's Birth-Control Shakeup

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Amanda Marcotte - Aug. 02 (News Analysis) - 'Insurance companies will be required to provide contraception without a copay - and conservative opposition, while predictable, makes no sense.

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Lessons of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Bernard-Henri Lévy - Jul. 02 (Opinion) - The Strauss-Kahn affair is not over. For it to be over, the American system of justice must pursue its investigation and work to the very end. If it’s truly to be over, Dominique Strauss-Kahn must be granted not only his freedom, but—even more importantly—restoration of his honor. In other words, “the Strauss-Kahn affair” will continue to be regarded as such as long as it hasn’t been clearly established that there never was any affair at all—and that the plaintiff, not content to have lied about this or that aspect of her past, also lied in accusing the former head of the IMF of having raped her. And yet, given recent revelations, we can already draw a few lessons from what will ultimately—no doubt very soon—be known as the Strauss-Kahn non-affair.

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DSK Accuser's African Connection

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Christopher Dickey - Jul. 01 (Investigative Report) - pride of place goes to the photograph of Fofanah and Alpha Condé, who was elected last November as president of Guinea, the country from which DSK’s accuser immigrated and requested political asylum. Condé, as it turns out, also has extensive ties to major political players in France, including people close to—wait for it—both President Nicolas Sarkozy and Strauss-Kahn, who had been expected to be the incumbent’s main challenger in next year’s elections. You can see why the conspiracy-minded French find the case so fascinating.

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Bachmann’s No Joke

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Mark McKinnon - Jun. 28 (Opinion) - She’s not my kind of candidate. And no one I know supports her. But I know enough to know I shouldn’t judge American voters and candidates by my own distorted circle. She is a rock star with the Tea Party set and social conservatives. And I also know enough to know that Michele Bachmann has been underestimated and treated unfairly by the mainstream press.

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s Sexual Assault Case: What Happened

Sat, 21 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By John Solomon - May. 21 (News Report) - The luxury-hotel maid who alleges she was sexually assaulted by Dominique Strauss-Kahn was found by a supervisor in a hallway where she hid after escaping from the former International Monetary Fund director's room. Hotel workers described her as traumatized, having difficulty speaking, and immediately concerned about pressing charges and losing her job, according to sources familiar with the investigation. The maid also repeatedly spit on the walls and floors of the suite in front of her hotel colleagues as she alleged that Strauss-Kahn locked her in his room and forced her into oral sex acts. That saliva is being tested for DNA markers and could become a crucial piece of evidence in the case, the sources said.

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Huntsman's 2012 Buzz Caused Friction With Obama Team

Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By McKay Coppins - May. 11 (News Analysis) - With Jon Huntsman gearing up for a 2012 campaign, sources in Beijing tell McKay Coppins exclusively that the ambassador’s presidential buzz led to clashes with the White House—and the Chinese government.

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The Birthers Become 'Deathers'

Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Josh Dzieza - May. 06 (News Analysis) - Birthers who claimed President Obama was not born in the U.S. have moved on to another wild conspiracy theory: that Osama bin Laden was not really killed last Sunday—or was killed to shut him up, and then quickly buried at sea.

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Democrats' Disgust With Obama

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Patricia Murphy - Apr. 15 (Opinion) - The budget deal, angrily rejected by Nancy Pelosi as it passed Thursday, was the last straw. Patricia Murphy on why some liberals are now pushing for a primary challenge to the president.

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War on the Weak

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Jonathan Chait - Apr. 11 (Opinion) - The class tinge of Ryan’s Path to Prosperity is striking. The poorest Americans would suffer immediate, explicit budget cuts. Middle-class Americans would face distant, uncertain reductions in benefits. And the richest Americans would enjoy an immediate windfall. Santelli, in his original rant, demanded that we “reward people [who can] carry the water instead of drink the water.” Ryan won’t say so, but that’s exactly what he’s doing.

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The Yemen President's Pariah Family

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Tom Finn - Apr. 09 (News Report) - After nearly three months of youth-led popular protests, defections by top generals, ambassadors and senior members of his government, Yemen's longtime ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh looks decidedly beleaguered. Earlier this week, American officials, who have previously backed him, discreetly admitted his rule is “untenable.” Even his most loyal backers, including members of his own tribe and longtime aid donors, including Saudi Arabia, are now ushering him toward the exit. Qatar’s Prime Minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, tightened the screws further late this week, telling the state news agency that a coalition of Gulf States hoped “to reach a deal with the Yemeni president to step down.”

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Why Obama's Campaign Bores Me

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Peter Beinart - Apr. 05 (Opinion) - The president kicked off his reelection bid Monday, officially launching the 2012 campaign. Peter Beinart on why liberals’ ardor has cooled—but Obama is headed for a predictable victory anyway.

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Obama Libya Speech Fudges the Details

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Howard Kurtz - Mar. 29 (Opinion) - The president’s Libya speech may have been a strong oration, but it fudged a few key elements, from why we responded to Gaddafi to whether we’re at war.

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Throw Clarence Thomas Off the Bench

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Daily Beast - By Paul Campos - Mar. 04 (Opinion) - The Supreme Court justice broke the law by not disclosing his wife's $700K think-tank payday. Paul Campos on Clarence Thomas' "preposterous" defense and why he likely won't be punished.

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Michele Bachmann's Attack on Veterans

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By Laura Colarusso - Feb. 22 (News Analysis) - 'Rep. Michele Bachmann created quite a stir when she suggested slashing $4.5 billion from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Her proposal - which was part of a $400 billion spending-cut strategy to avoid raising the debt ceiling - was to freeze funding for health care and cut disability payments for vets who also collect from Social Security.'

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Gates, Rumsfeld Sued Over US Military's Rape Epidemic

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By Jesse Ellison - Feb. 15 (News Report) - 'A landmark lawsuit filed Tuesday against Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, alleges that the military's repeated failures to take action in rape cases created a culture where violence against women was tolerated, violating the plaintiffs' Constitutional rights.'

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Why Egypt's Naysayers Got It Wrong

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Daily Beast - By Laila Lalami - Feb. 13 (Opinion) - Right up until the end, political theorists the world over insisted that what happened in Tunisia couldn't—or shouldn't—happen in Egypt. Laila Lalami on why Westerners often underestimate the Arab world. Plus, full coverage of Egypt’s uprising. It was nearly 20 years ago that Samuel Huntington put forth the idea that major sources of world conflict in the aftermath of the Cold War would be cultural. Certain civilizations could coexist peacefully with one another, he argued, but others were bound to come into conflict because their inherent values and belief systems were polar opposites. The contrast between "the West" and "Islam" provided the clearest illustration of his argument and, after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, it gained an even wider following. Huntington's theory has so pervaded public discourse that when people speak of his "Clash of Civilizations," they usually mean the inevitable clash between the West and Islam.

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Right-Wing Talk Is Dying

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Daily Beast - By John Avlon - Feb. 09 (News Analysis) - Here’s another sign that the tide might be turning against the Wingnuts—Glenn Beck’s TV ratings are down 50 percent and major market radio stations are dropping him.

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Should We Blame Sarah Palin for Gabrielle Giffords' Shooting

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Daily Beast - By Howard Kurtz - Jan. 09 (Opinion) - This kind of rhetoric is highly unfortunate. The use of the crosshairs was dumb. But it's a long stretch from such excessive language and symbols to holding a public official accountable for a murderer who opens fire on a political gathering and kills a half-dozen people, including a 9-year-old girl.

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Three Judges Who Challenged Obamacare All Have Stock In Healthcare Companies

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Daily Beast - By Brendan Smith - Dec. 21 (News Report) - Three U.S. district judges presiding over legal challenges to the landmark federal health care law have held financial stakes in the health-care industry that could raise questions about a conflict of interest, according to a Center for Public Integrity review of their latest available financial disclosure forms.

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Bradley Manning: WikiLeaks Alleged Source’s Life in Prison

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Daily Beast - By Denver Nicks - Dec. 17 (Interview) - The last time Bradley Manning saw the world outside of a jail, most Americans had never heard of WikiLeaks. On Friday, Manning, the man whose alleged unauthorized release of hundreds of thousands of classified documents put the website and its controversial leader, Julian Assange, on the map, turns 23 behind bars. Since his arrest in May, Manning has spent most of his 200-plus days in solitary confinement. Other than receiving a card and some books from his family, his birthday will be no different. In an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast, his attorney, David Coombs, revealed key details about Manning’s imprisonment and kind gestures from his family that provided a bit of comfort in the inmate's otherwise extremely harsh incarceration.

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Why the WikiLeaks Drama Is Overblown

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Daily Beast - By Peter Beinart - Nov. 29 (Opinion) - When journalists gather information that genuinely changes the way we see some aspect of American foreign policy, or exposes government folly or abuse, they should move heaven and earth to make sure it sees the light of day. But that’s a far cry from publishing documents that sabotage American foreign policy without adding much, if anything, to the public debate.

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Fox News Chief Blasts NPR 'Nazis'

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Daily Beast - By Howard Kurtz - Nov. 18 (Interview) - Roger Ailes slams Jon Stewart as a conservative-basher, explains why he rode to Juan Williams’ rescue—and sees NPR as taxpayer-funded propaganda. Part II of Howard Kurtz’s interview.

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Roger Ailes Lets Rip

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Daily Beast - By Howard Kurtz - Nov. 17 (Interview) - In an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast, the Fox News chief says Obama thinks differently from most Americans, defends Murdoch’s GOP donations, and admits Beck sometimes goes too far.

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