On December 23, 2005 Secretary Rumsfeld held a townhall meeting on the topic of Fallujah. At that meeting, Rumsfeld stated the following: But what we're in is a global war on terror. It is a struggle in the Muslim religion between a small number of violent extremists who are determined to behead…
Remember all of the 2002 beltway sniper killings committed by John Muhammad and Lee Malvo? Each one of those deaths garnered loads of front page media attention. That is because human life was sacred and because every preventable death needed to be publicized to prevent further deaths. I remember the…
Does it all seem like déjà vu? It should. Most of us first heard the unfolding national story while sitting on our parents’ laps, courtesy of Dr. Seuss. A con artist comes to town to exploit a glaring weakness: the willingness of the citizens to act out of bigotry. In…
We usually hear about "lies, damn lies, and statistics," but, in the case of the US national debt, it's more like "lies, damn lies, and more damn lies." Bush and Congressional Republicans campaigned on promises of fiscal restraint, but their promises have turned out to be even bigger lies than the ones they…