November 16, 2007
…Not What I Do
When I learned President George W. Bush would be addressing the Federalist Society at a gala dinner last night in the nation’s capital, I sensed fodder for an I Just Have To Say post.
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July 22, 2007
Gut Check
Last week, Department of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff announced his “gut feeling” the United States is in for another ter’st attack on U.S. soil this summer.
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January 3, 2007
The “B” And The “S”
A couple of stories had various jaws flapping today, neither of which reflects too well on the media, the punditocracy, or the so-called leadership position of the United States in world affairs. In one, certain quarters are up in arms over the cellphone camera recording of Saddam Hussein’s execution to which I linked yesterday. In the other, presumptive 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is learning quickly the calculus of celebrity in the modern age.
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November 8, 2006
Where We Stand
America may well have woken this morning to, as the ever-annoying David Brooks wrote in the New York Times, “No Tsunami,” but yesterday’s elections returned control of the U.S. House of Representatives to the Democrats, and depending on the outcome of two races that remain undecided, the Democrats will either also control the U.S. Senate, or the upper chamber will be nearly evenly split between them and the Republicans.
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October 31, 2006
The Horror, The Horror
Things are looking pretty scary these days, regardless of one’s perspective, be it so-called liberal or so-called conservative.
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September 28, 2006
Well And Truly F*cked
President George W. Bush came one step closer today to wielding the power to undo nearly 800 years of human progress with the stroke of a pen.
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August 10, 2006
Terror Wins Again
Authorities in Great Britian arrested 21 people in and around London Thursday, claiming to have foiled a terrorist plot to blow up transatlantic jetliners bound from London to the United States. Security was raised to its highest level in Britain, and carry-on luggage was banned on all flights. Huge crowds backed up at London’s Heathrow airport as officials searching for explosives barred nearly every form of liquid outside of baby formula.
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August 8, 2006
When The Levee Breaks
The first crack in the neoconservative facade appeared tonight just after 11:00pm Eastern time, when Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman conceded his state’s Democratic primary to millionaire challenger Ned Lamont. Just three months ago polls showed the three-time incumbent senator held a commanding lead over his little-known opponent. With but three months before this year’s mid-term elections, conservatives everywhere must be feeling less secure than they have in quite some time.
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June 4, 2006
Modern History 101
Invest 45 minutes of your valuable time and understand everything you need to know about why we are in Iraq, and why we’re going into Iran.
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May 27, 2006
Pants On Fire
President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair mounted a major PR campaign this week, touting progress being made in the War in Iraq, hammering at the theme of a “newborn democracy” struggling to survive there, even offering an olive branch of contrition for “mistakes” and “missteps” they made in the prosecution of the war.
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