Maher: Tell Bush what he wants to hear

The idea of Bill Maher's post is that we should just tell President Bush that his wildest fantasies are, indeed, coming true. Will Bush ever find out that we're lying to him?  Are you kidding?  He just told Australia's Prime Minister that we're "kicking ass" in Iraq.  That's the way it…

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I don’t know

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."  Ludwig Wittgenstein We are suffering greatly because too many people are incapable of saying “I don’t know.”  Why can’t people simply say “I don’t know” when they don’t know?  Is it because so many of us were chastised in school when…

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Conservative Conscience Redux

According to this article, Barry Goldwater’s book, The Conscience of a Conservative, is being reissued. Timely reading? Depends on what audience at which this is aimed. I seriously doubt conservatives of the Rove/Norquist stripe will have much sympathy with Goldwater, who now seems admirable and even iconic compared to the…

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