Apparently there’s a dude trying to overthrow the Assad regime in Syria. His name is Farid Ghadry, a Syrian exile and buddy of some neocons in Washington. He runs a website called the Reform Party of Syria, with all kinds of facts and figures about why Assad should be taken out back and pistol whipped. […]

The mutual cease-fire between Israelis and Palestinians may explode in everyone’s faces, as my last entry stated. We’ve seen it before, and we’re likely to see it again. Terrorism eradicates all hopes for peace, even when Mr. Abbas and Mr. Sharon come together in a star-studded summit at Sharm el-Sheikh. But, for […]

As Condi Rice prepares for her Mideast sojourn this weekend, the Bush clan needs to be focusing its attention on the latest news out of the Holy Land: the de facto Hudna or cease-fire. The AP wire indicates that Sharon and Abu Mazen have both accepted Egypt’s invitation to meet at Sharm al-Sheikh next Wednesday, […]

Today’s Iraqi election seems to have been a success (I’m waiting to see what the turnout ratios were for Shia/Sunni/Kurd populations). The question is, what kind of success will it be for the Bush administration?
I have no qualms saying, quite happily, that this is a feather in President Bush’s cap. He demanded elections, went forward […]

Might I have to eat my words?
The polls are closed in Iraq and by most accounts the election was a success. Turnout was good and violence was limited. Obviously the results are not in and there are tough days ahead, but so far so good.
Today will undoubtedly be taken as a vindication of Bush’s actions. […]

See, this is what I’m talking about. Poverty should be the moral value of note when addressing Christian morals.
In Chicago last weekend, Dr. Frenchak joined a gathering of 20 Christians, mostly evangelicals, to produce a book defining moral values to include a focus on poverty. At the meeting, one man held up a Bible from […]

Ward Churchill is a native American University of Colorado ethnic studies professor who has been critical of the victims of September 11th, likening them to Nazis, and claimed 9/11 was inevitable in light of the fact that the US has killed half a million Iraqi children.
OK, so those are the facts according to Rush Limbaugh. […]

I want to start a dialogue on the upcoming DNC Chair race. I’ll update this post with articles and snippets about the various candidates as I find them–feel free to do the same.
Right now there are two candidates that are close to securing the majority vote: Howard Dean and Martin Frost. The choice between these […]

Found this on NewDonkey’s front page.
Fight fire with fire. That’s also how I feel about the Ten Commandments
brouhaha: I’ve long advised Southern Democrats to say, “We don’t just want to
post the Ten Commandments; we want to practice them, so let’s talk about
honoring our fathers and mothers with a decent retirement.”
This is a really strong […]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050126/D87S2IIO0.html
It turns out that after the revelation of Armstrong Williams and Maggie Gallagher, two columnists, were paid by the Bush administration to shill for their policies, Bush is now asking his cabinet agencies to NOT hire members of the press. That is, not to break the law. It’s illegal to use government money to pay […]