Night Terrors (Updated)
Continuing the unhelpful theme of “just stop saying this stuff”, the RNC has chastised its terrified Tennessee representatives: (CNN) – Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan formally...
View ArticleStanding in for Hussein
Via Andrew Sullivan comes this tidbit from the World Politics Review blog. My emphasis: [A]s the glue that holds Iraq’s disparate parts together, the U.S. is now playing the role that Saddam Hussein...
View ArticleIf Iraq asked us, would we leave?
I can see a point coming soon where Iraqi and American interests will diverge, and so I have a hypothetical question: If the Iraqi government asked us to leave right now, do you think President Bush...
View ArticleObama prepares the ground for Iraq
Gracious! That was quick! In my very latest post, I wrote: I seriously doubt it will be November, though, before Obama begins explaining how the changes in Iraq affect statements that time has...
View ArticleMcCain and Obama: Both wrong on Iraq
Barack Obama’s editorial on Iraq in today’s New York Times is generating lots of dialogue. I’m really glad everyone’s covering the story so well, because it leaves me free to bring up a couple of...
View ArticleBoosting Obama
Sure enough, the minute I say I’m going to be offline for a few days, something happens. This, though, is a really big “something”: SPIEGEL: Would you hazard a prediction as to when most of the US...
View ArticleFull Metal Jacket or Private Benjamin?
I’m stunned that this still goes on (from CNN, my emphasis). “Now I hear the same chorus from many parents: ‘I don’t want my son or daughter to get shot.’ But I tell them that just because there’s a...
View ArticleMommy Still Cries
I first posted this two years ago, on the 5th anniversary of 9/11. It still says exactly what I feel, and think, about that horrible, world-changing day. The only thing I’ve changed, for this post,...
View ArticleAnti-Abortion. Anti-Life. Anti-Law.
It’s been quite awhile since I’ve posted, but yesterday’s murder of Dr. George Tiller — one of only two or three medical practitioners in the entire country who performed “late term” abortions –caught...
View ArticleNidal Hasan: Religious Terrorist
When somebody commits violence (in this case, mass murder) in the name of their religion, the word for it is terrorism. Specifically, religious terrorism. Why is it so hard to call it what it is for...
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