I’m starting The Rat List - a collection of Twitter users disseminating incorrect or blatantly propagandistic information.
Years from now, it is unlikely that anyone other than people like me (re: people with a professional interest in terrorism) will care much about this example of backfired fear-mongering, but I think it is incredibly salient to the Right’s totally ridiculous assertions about how Obama is a secret Muslim terrorist. McCain and Palin raise [...]
I hope this is in a textbook my children read:
“People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.” - President Bill Clinton
So I think I figured out why I’ve had such a hard time writing since Bush’s poll numbers began to tank and the GOP’s party-wide corruption began unraveling for public display.
I think its because I was right, and now everyone knows.
Marcus Porcius Cato (for you antiquity buffs out there - Cato the Elder, or Cato the Censor) used to punctuate every speech, motion, and point of order on the floor of the Roman Senate with this phrase. It means, basically, “Carthage must be destroyed.” He would append it to every declaration. Imagine.
“We recommend that taxes [...]