I laughed out loud when I read this story. Yes, after five years of Bush's swaggering incompetence, his Administration now wants to hire a scapegoat -- er, "war overseer" -- to take the fall for the mess in Iraq, and at least three retired generals have already turned down the offer. Unlike Bush,…
A recent article in Newsweek describes this national crisis well. Here's one symptom: "At many state universities the gender balance is already tilting 60-40 toward women." The problem starts well before college, though: By almost every benchmark, boys across the nation and in every demographic group are falling behind. In…
Back in January, 2007, I attended a press conference in Memphis during which Dennis Kucinich appeared to strongly oppose impeachment. Based upon a recent interview with Amy Goodman of DemocracyNow, though, Kucinich seems to be warming up to the idea: I don't think that it's wise for the House and…
Mr. "Life, the Universe, and Everything" makes some good points. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjvSX4Y8C1o[/youtube]
The US House and Senate Democrats have passed supplemental funding bills for Iraq and Afghanistan which, for the first time, put conditions of oversight upon such funding, which past Republican Congresses had merely rubberstamped, with added pork. President Bush has cried “Wolf!” His attack upon the bill first relied upon…