December 2012 Archive

Barack Obama with Senator Chuck Hagel, 2009

Who Paid for the Log Cabin Republicans’ Anti-Hagel NYT Ad?

By Glenn Greenwald: Last Thursday, the gay GOP group Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) placed afull-page ad in the New York Times that attacked Chuck Hagel as anti-Israeland anti-gay and urged President Obama not to appoint him as Defense Secretary.

Dean Baker

New York Times Gets It Fundamentally Wrong on the Budget Impasse

By Dean Baker: The NYT doesn't seem to keep up to date with writings on the budget deficit even in its own paper.

Drone

US Drone War Inspires Militants to Hunt & Kill ‘Informers’

By Kevin Gosztola: Members of militant groups in Pakistan may not be able to do much to prevent the United States from launching drone strikes in Pakistan, but...