Arkansas GOP Chief Stupider Than Ours?
June 4, 2007
Link: Arkansas GOP head: We need more ‘attacks on American soil’ so people appreciate Bush. "At the end of the day, I believe fully the president is doing the right thing, and I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on [Sept. 11, 2001], and the naysayers will come
Frameshop: My Abortion Troll
June 3, 2007
A few years ago I was inspired by a visit to an online anti-abortion forum to pen a troll to try to get anti-abortion activists to think more seriously about the woman part of the abortion equation. To that end, I pretended to take an ultra-hard, secular anti-abortion position so that they would have nothing
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
