Well, no surprise here that Bush’s speech this week didn’t improve his numbers. His “bite-the-bullet” message hasn’t resonated with the public, who don’t recognize the war in Iraq as a just cause for national sacrifice. Zogby just released its latest poll, which not only shows Bush’s numbers continuing to slip, but discusses how the American […]

William Safire condemns the SCOTUS decision to let Judy Miller and Matthew Cooper be jailed. He sums up how the prosecution has pursued these two reporters in order to make it appear that they are the reason he has failed to bring a case against the real criminal or criminals in this situation: Robert Novak’s […]

The Spanish Congress of Deputies today passed into law a bill that legalizes gay marriage.
Spain joins the Netherlands and Belgium as the only countries that afford gays the same rights as heterosexuals. Canada’s House of Commons passed a bill this week that would do the same, but it must first be approved by the Senate, […]

Bob Herbert’s op-ed piece today is great. It’s remarkable how much of a non-story the continuation of the war in Iraq is. We don’t hear much about it besides the daily toll of human life to roadside bombs and suicide attacks. Even in the blogosphere, there isn’t a lot of talk about the war beyond […]

I’m in Paris now and I wasn’t able to see Bush’s speech, though I’ve read the transcript. It was a pretty vanilla speech for Bush; he really just compiled and repeated most of his catch phrases and sound bites from the last four years.
What gets me is that the whole speech lacked any vision, honesty, […]

Well, there ya go. What a pitiful attempt to rally support. Not even the troops in the room got excited as their Commander in Chief promised to make sure that they and their friends would remain in Iraq for the long haul. I saw Joe Biden on the news this morning and he acknowledged that […]

Bush is addressing the nation…I can’t wait.
What do I want to hear? Well, honest numbers, for a start. In terms of a clear strategy, I can’t say I expect much. I agree with the administration that it would be dangerous to set a departure date for our troops since it would give the insurgency a […]

It looks like the prudish rule of John Ashcroft and his regressive religious followers has ended with his replacement as Attorney General. The veil that covered Lady Justice’s exposed breast has been removed, without any fanfare. I wonder how the Dobson’s of the world will react to this blatant moral decline (hear the slow drip […]

It looks like Chinese business interests are starting to take a page from hard core Wall Street corporate raiders. The China National Offshore Oil Company is bidding to buy America’s Unocal, in an unsolicited bid of $18.5 billion that raises the price Chevron offered by half a billion dollars. I have to say that the […]

Wow. I stopped by Bull Moose and found a post very similar to my own from this morning (I posted 34 minutes after he did) about the coming Bush offensive. Moose makes some good points justifying his thinking:
… the situation in Iraq has not improved since the January election. If anything, it has gotten […]