I think that this is the only statement about the state of our union that needs any attention today. From the Editors of The Nation:
World opinion is against it. The American people are against it. The Democratic Party is against it. The Congress of the United States is against it. The Iraq Study Group is […]

Keith Olbermann’s special comments are about the closest thing liberal Americans have to guided missile strikes in the war of words that surrounds our politics. His comments have thus far been directed towards the Bush administration - Bush himself, Cheney, and Rumsfeld - but last night he set his sights on Newt Gingrich, disgraced former […]

Hooray. At least Murphy likes law school.

Pat Tillman is probably the most well-known casualty of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The former NFL star was the victim of friendly fire (despite the Pentagon telling his family and the world that he was killed by enemy fire) in 2004. Kevin, Pat’s brother and fellow Army Ranger, has written a post on […]

There are a lot of things I’d do if I were an asshole. Fortunately for the world I can live vicariously through Ann Althouse and save myself the trouble.
If I were an asshole, I’d be upset about not being important enough to get invited to a meeting with President Bill Clinton and a handful of […]

Sadly, No! is one of my favorite sites for humorous commentary. But they also carry a big whooping stick to take out right wing hypocrisy. I’m not going to delve into the issue they’re blogging about as I try to limit my commentary to legitimate areas for debate, but Gavin and Brad are adept at […]

Ann Coulter is right. Yesterday’s much maligned assault on the 9/11 widows, Cindy Sheehan, and our eyesight (she was in a cocktail dress in the early morning) contained an unmistakable truth: the only Democratic spokespeople that are reliably listened to are our infallible victims.
It’s taken me a full day to come to grips with the […]

Back home on my family’s farm I own a gun. The right to do so is protected by the Second Amendment. It’s ironic that the one right that I have no problem sacrificing, the right to bear arms, is the only one not currently being actively curtailed by the Administration.
I do not intend for […]

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Yesterday I made clear that our elected representatives in Congress are basking in the facility of their jobs instead of raising the havoc America needs to fight the Bush administration’s overreaching authority, we can turn to the one thing that really ruffles Congressional favors - perceived personal slight.
But until December, when the eavesdropping was […]

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Bob Geiger asks some questions that have been begging themselves into existence since December.
What should make it even easier on Bush’s anti-Constitution crew is that, according to what they tell us, they already have half of their riddle solved. Given Team Bush’s assertion that they’re only spying on people talking to known […]