Can We Have a Nation When Only Partisans Are Served?

How frightening is this?
mcjoan of the Daily Kos writes:
…there’s news of a “bloggers roundtable” that occurred yesterday with Major General Kenneth Hunzeker, the Army officer in charge of the Iraqi police training program. Who attended this roundtable? Googling reveals no reports other than one by RedState’s AcademicElephant.
The contributing editors at Daily Kos weren’t invited to […]

Bush’s Extraordinary Protection of Extraordinary Rendition

According to the Washington Post, the U.S., Britain, Spain, and Italy have refused to sign a long-negotiated accord on secret detentions. The U.N. treaty has 58 other signers. It is hardly surprising as failure to cooperate with other nations is a hallmark of the Bush administration. What would be surprising is if this administration did […]

Time To Get Off Our Asses and Do Something

I’m talking to me and I’m talking to you. Some folks are doing everything they can. This is for the rest of us. I sit in my comfy dining room or home office and tap away posting blog entries. It’s great for venting bile and preaching to the choir. Most of my hits in the […]

Faith, Ecstasy, and the Unknowable

I find it amazing, frustrating, and somewhat amusing to be at a new “crisis of faith” at mid-life. There have been several periods along the path where I believed I’d reached my “terminal belief system,” even while knowing that many become more religious later in life.
I always attributed late-life conversions to fear of the […]

Claims of Saddam’s Martyrdom Were So Predictable

It’s not always satisfying to be correct. Sometimes it can be damned aggravating.
Last week I wrote:
Who benefits from the death of Hussein? Certainly the risk to the U.S. is greater in killing him than it would be to let him wither away in isolation and obscurity. One can make the argument that he deserved to […]

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