Mark Maynard | Osama bin Laden

Dueling town halls: Mister Rogers vs. America’s crazy uncle

By Mark | October 15, 2020

When news broke that Donald Trump had contracted the deadly disease he’d been lying to the American people about these past six months, the members of the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, fearing that he might further spread the disease in a live event, proposed that the debate which had been scheduled for tonight be […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, 2020 election, ABC, conspiracy theories, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Mercedes Schlapp, Mister Rodgers Neighborhood, Navy SEALS, NBC, pedophilia, Qanon, Satan, Savannah Guthrie, town hall | 142 Comments

Five things about the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

By Mark | October 27, 2019

In the early morning hours of May 2, 2011, a U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group, as part of an operation code-named Neptune Spear, entered a fortified compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and executed Osama bin Laden, the head of the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda. In a televised announcement later that day, a sober Barack Obama […]

Posted in Other, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abbottabad, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, al Qaeda, assassination, Barack Obama, baseball, booing, chants, credit, crying, Donald Trump, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, Idlib, ISIS, Kurds, lock him up, Mike Pence, Navy SEALS, Neptune Spear, Pakistan, Russia, screaming, September 11, Situation Room, Syria, terrorism, threats to Democracy, Washington Nationals, whimpering, William McRaven, World Series | 67 Comments

Here we go again… the Swiftboating of Obama has begun

By Mark | August 15, 2012

A few nights ago, I told you about a family member of mine who had shared a purposefully misleading political graphic on Facebook, and how I responded. The piece, which incorrectly attributed $5 billion of the nation’s debt to the “Democratic majority,” was produced by an organization called Right Change, a fake grassroots entity bankrolled […]

Posted in Media, Observations, Politics | Also tagged 9/11, astroturf, Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US, Bush, Bush administration, Dick Cheney, Dishonorable Disclosures, Federal Election Commission, Fred Eshelman, George Bush the Lesser, intelligence, Iraq war, leaks, liberal media, lies in the run-up to the Iraq war, Mission Accomplished, national security, Navy SEALS, Obama, OPSEC, Plamegate, political ads, RightChange.com, Romney, Ryan Zinke, special forces, Special Operations for America, Special Operations Political Committee, state secrets, Super PAC, Swiftboating, Valerie Plame | 22 Comments

Tonight’s Sate of the Union address

By Mark | January 24, 2012

I’m listing to the President’s State of the Union address right now, and wondering how in the hell any of the Republicans currently fighting for their party’s nomination think they’ve got a realistic shot against him come November. I know it’s just a speech, and a lot of the ideas will never come to fruition, […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged class warfare, Financial Crimes Unit, food stamps, foreclosure, get the money out of Washington, GITMO, Guantánamo Bay, health care reform, higher education, income inequality, lobbying, Obama, poverty, public option, State of the Union, tax the rich, the growing gap between rich and poor, the politics on envy, threats to the middle class, unions, Wall Street, welfare | 23 Comments

Juan Cole on the spread of democracy in the Muslim world, and the anti-democratic legacy of 9/11 at home

By Mark | September 11, 2011

As reluctant as I am to jump on the “Let’s Milk the 10th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks for Ratings and Ad Revenue” bandwagon, I just read a very thoughtful piece by U-M history professor Juan Cole, and felt as though it deserved to be passed along. Here’s a clip. I’d encourage you, however, to […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, History, Politics | Also tagged 9/11, Abu Ghraib, al Qaeda, Arab Spring, Bush, Bush administration, CIA, democracy, democracy protests, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Juan Cole, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, Qaddafi, surveillance culture, Tahrir Square, terrorism, threats to Democracy, Tunisia, two state solution, war for oil, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali | 14 Comments

Tag Archives: Osama bin Laden

Dueling town halls: Mister Rogers vs. America’s crazy uncle

Five things about the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Here we go again… the Swiftboating of Obama has begun

Tonight’s Sate of the Union address

Juan Cole on the spread of democracy in the Muslim world, and the anti-democratic legacy of 9/11 at home

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