House Overwhelmingly Passes Trade Sanctions Bill Targeted At China

This might boil up to a bigger test where we'll see if the United States can stand up to China, a country which the US owes so much money to.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Jon Stewart, Bill O'Reilly Make Fun Of Glenn Beck (VIDEO)

This was actually a pretty witty and funny exchange right until the end when Bill-O decides to take a shot at Jon's rally.

I wonder why Jon has tried on numerous occasions to paint Bill O'Reilly as the 'fair' and 'sane' one on Fox News. While that is true with regards to the opinion shows on Fox, the network also has news reporters such as Shepard Smith who are much less opinionated. It almost feels like Jon, who knows that O'Reilly is still top dog in the cable news ratings, is trying to pull Bill-O more left, hoping that the audience who watches him won't be bombarded by biased conservative nonsense like those of Hannity and Glenn Beck.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

'Lone Star' CANCELED By Fox After Just 2 Episodes

That's too bad. I was thinking about maybe following "Lone Star". Seems like an interesting premise if done right, I guess it just didn't have enough appeal.

What surprises though is "Lie to Me" coming back onto the air so soon. I am a fan of the show, but I remember the show premiering in September of last year, then taking a break in the winter, before returning during the summer. Its season 2 finale aired just two weeks ago! FOX must really like this show.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Obama's Rolling Stone Interview: President Calls Out 'Irresponsible' Apathetic Dem Voters

It's really sad to see the President of the United States having to defend himself against Tea Party / Birther / Exotic / Socialist allegations while he has to deal with things such as world peace (e.g. facilitating the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, containing an unpredictable Iran, etc.), eliminating poverty (in the world as well as in the United States), saving the middle class, providing all Americans with health care, bettering the education system, etc. The man has a vision and wants to get on with materializing it, but he's being bogged down by petty politics.

What Obama needs to say to the apathetic voters, democrats included, is that the biggest reason why they need to vote for the Dems in the coming elections is to prevent the Republicans from taking power.

America cannot afford to let the GOP take back any part of Congress, or else every single piece of legislation would be stuck and beat until it's dead, and government would get nothing done. America also cannot let the Republicans win because they are a party whose platform makes almost no sense at all, and would do the country much more harm than good. Finally, the Democrats need to vote to keep the GOP out because the Republicans would lead the country backwards, to more of what we had with the Bush administration.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Shots Fired At University Of Texas

Possessing semi-automatic pistols is one story, like the perpetrator of the Virginia Tech Massacre Cho Seung-Hui did. At least Cho acquired them through legal means (although whether guns should be legal at all is another story). But having an AK-47 assault rifle is illegal anywhere, which makes this even more worrisome.

The question now becomes whether or not if this is an insane person or a domestic terrorist.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Who Is The Ultimate Game Changer In Politics?

Cory Booker has done the impossible. He is fixing New Jersey
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Queen Tried To Get UK Poverty Fund To Heat Buckingham Palace

Wow, really? I mean... really?

The Queen, out of touch with reality long before Princess Diana's death.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Michael Ware, Former CNN War Correspondent, Speaks Out On Alleged War Crime CNN Refused To Air

Nobody cares about the horrors of war, Mr. Ware. It's why the American war machine has been able to rumble on year after year. Politicians, pundits, or the average citizen don't want to hear how terrifying it is to be in war. All they want to hear are that we are winning and that some casualties are inevitable.

The roots of this problem goes back to the ignorance of the masses. It is absolutely appalling how much some people in America (militaristic ideologues, religious fanatics, big business, etc) have gotten away with. People need to wake up.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

U.S. Presses China On Sanctions For Iran, North Korea

The US-China political problem is much more complicated than many make it out to be. Yes, China has America's number because holds so much bonds and exports so much of its goods to the U.S., but on the other hand, China cannot afford to see the U.S. economy collapse because the value of the money that they hold will plunge and demand for Chinese-made goods will fall.

Having said that, the U.S. can't exactly do much when big Chinese business stick their middle fingers up to sanctions and continue doing business with the Iranians (especially the energy companies). The entire Chinese government is part of China's business juggernaut, and they're not about to let money-making stop because America wants to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Vatican Bank Facing Money Laundering Probe

At least they're not molesting children and laundering money at the same time... wait...
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Bill Maher Talks Glenn Beck's 'Diabetic Mall-Walkers,' Summer Of Racism (VIDEO)

Bill Maher really should do something to counter Glenn Beck's rally. A lot of liberal commentators are despised by those on the right wing because the liberals present an image where they're 'better' than their conservative counterparts. They believe they make sense, and that the conservatives do not, not even common sense. They often resort to name-calling and pompous rants that does nothing but bolster the right's hatred towards them. If liberals such as Bill Maher and Keith Olbermann want to be more inclusive, even towards those whom they believe things that make no sense at all, they need to tone down their partisan rhetoric.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

New 'iPad 2' To Be Released In Time For 2010 Holiday Season?

PLEASE DO IT
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Sha Zukang, China's Top U.N. Diplomat, Goes On Drunken Rant Against Americans

Haha what a loser.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Iraq's Heavy Journalist Death Toll Keeps Climbing

Sadly, it's not the featured figure of 172 journalist deaths so far in the Iraq War that's most shocking, even in comparison to the death toll of 63 during the Vietnam War. What's most depressing is the number of Al Iraqiya journalists killed in a span of seven years, 15.

I can't imagine what it's like to work there. For someone who has worked there during those seven years and is lucky enough to have lived, he would have had to endure the mourning of the deaths of 15 colleagues. You would think someone would begin to do something about this, anything.

"What can be done?" You might ask. Well, assuming that laws are at least somewhat enforced, passing that journalist protection law is a good start. Also, the modern media functions as one of the most powerful weapons mankind has ever created, and victims of terror should use it against those who terrorist them.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Progressive Group: Rahm's A 'Cancer On The Democratic Party,' Should 'Flatly Go Away'

Rahm the hawk, or Rahm the agent of good? Like it or not, any organization (in this case, the White House) needs someone bombastic and aggressive like Rahm to run things. We can only speculate whether Adam Green is right, that if Democrats went all out to pass the public option and break down the big banks they'd be on their way to a big victory in November. While it might not have helped them achieve a landslide, I believe they would be disliked by less people because at least they wouldn't have caved in to rumors, opposition pressures, and weakness in character.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Tony Blair On Afghanistan, Attacking Iran, And Dick Cheney's Post-9/11 Worldview (VIDEO)

Why is Tony Blair saying nice things of any kind about Dick Cheney? Even if you stand by your claim that the Iraqi invasion was absolutely necessary, you don't have to agree with Cheney about his ideological worldview.

Dick Cheney believes in a hard-line approach because he is out of touch with the reality that hard-line approaches always results in lots of casualties, military and civilian alike. Look no further than what the hard-line Israelis have done over the past few years.

With regards to Iran, perhaps I am in no position to harshly criticize Blair's views, because I am unfamiliar with the circumstances that he was under that has prompted him to possess those views. But speaking from my education and what I've learned (my History BA Degree is a concentration in Middle Eastern history), the Middle East is an immensely complex region that cannot, and must not, be simplified into 'who's good', 'who's evil', 'who ought to be contained', etc. Countries such as Syria, Jordan, and Turkey, while somewhat volatile in their own right, act as a natural barrier in containing the more 'dangerous' countries such as Iran, and to lesser degrees, Yemen and Afghanistan.

Why is Iran a threat? Not because of its people, but because the government is currently headed up a selected group of unique nut jobs (radicals with extreme views, being the better term). President Ahmedinejad has the backing of Ayatollah Khamenei. The country itself, in terms of political / social progress and human rights, is miles ahead of its neighbors in the Persian Gulf, particularly Saudi Arabia, infamous for its suppression of human rights.

So why has Tony Blair, and the rest of the Western World, been doing next to nothing to help rid the dictatorships of these countries? The obvious reason is of course business interests. The oil-addicted Western World dare not mess with its main source of supply.

I, along with a lot of political commentators in Canada and the US, have been under the impression that Tony Blair is a very smart and savvy politician. And I'm trying to make sense of Blair's believe to leave military action against Iran on the table. I can't, because it doesn't make sense.

Maybe David Cameron will bring something new for Britain's foreign policy agenda. Then again, maybe not.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost