The Gun Posse Rides (Over a Cliff) Again
June 1, 2007
Arizona state lawmakers are looking at requiring government premises to allow citizens to carry weapons on the premises unless they provide storage facilities in which to secure arms within 200 feet of the entrance. Once again, reasonable gun policy is falling victim to knee jerk extremist positions on both sides that have less to do
Giffords and Mitchell To Run With The Dogs
May 31, 2007
The Hill is reporting that both Representatives Giffords and Mitchell are vying to be jumped into the Blue Dog Coalition, a select group of centrist Democrats who main focus is budgetary discipline and whose membership is currently capped at 47 lawmakers. This is, I hope, a mainly positive development. I strongly support most of what
I am not a Politician
May 27, 2007
UPDATE: Gab and Steny Hoyer will be at the Lodge on the Desert, 306 N.Alvernon Way on Tuesday, May 29, 12:30 – 1:30. I encourage all who can to show up and let them know how you feel about their votes on Iraq and their failure to stop the war in Iraq. Link: Howard
Al Gore Unleashed
May 26, 2007
Link: Al Gore slams ‘trivialities and nonsense’ in news media. Many have opined that Al Gore is absolutely not running for President because no Presidential candidate in his right mind would write a book like "The Assault on Reason". I can’t really speak to that in detail yet, because I haven’t finished the book, but
Bush Wins, Dems Mulligan, Troops Lose
May 24, 2007
There is likely to be a lot of backslapping among Democrats who think that allowing the occupation of Iraq to continue without any conditions or accountability is smart politics, even though it is disastrously bad policy: at least Bush owns the policy, not us, is the thinking. It is true that now that the Democratic
Disappointed All Around
May 23, 2007
I haven’t felt much like posting of late. Every time I think I might want to write about the many currents of national or local politics, I start to circle the drain thinking about just how low the state of our republic has been brought. We are stuck in orbit about a giant black hole
Ron Paul Lances the Festering Boil on the Face of GOP Security Policies
May 16, 2007
Link: Viewers Say Romney (29%) and Paul (25%) won GOP SC Debate, Not Giuliani (19%). I’ve examined the footage of Saturday’s GOP debate and I am very excited. Ron Paul is tearing the stuffing out of the GOP’s 9/11 straw man. Paul had the temerity to question the self-righteous, blindly chauvinist framing by the GOP
Anyone Care to Explain Giffords’ and Mitchell’s Vote on Iraq?
May 12, 2007
Giffords and Mitchell voted with the GOP on HR 2237, the appropriation bill for Iraq that would have begun redeployment away from Iraq. It was widely rumored that conservative Democrats would be voting no, and about 60 of them did, dooming the bill to lose 171-255, and weakening our hand in the struggle with President
