The explanation is complicated, but it begins like this…
Because believe it or not, I fear things like this will become more commonplace after we leave.
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 24 – A suicide car bomb exploded Thursday near an American convoy at the entrance to the main hospital in the volatile town of Mahmudiya, killing at least [...]

Personally, I don’t really think so…
However….
CAP is short for Concerned Alumni of Princeton. It was founded in 1972 and went on to be dominated by purported racist and sexist philosophies that lamented the inclusion of more women and minorities into the Princeton fold.
But is that Alito’s fault? He left Princeton in 1972, so the [...]

Nearly unbelievable…
DENVER – Former FEMA Director Michael Brown, heavily criticized for his agency’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina, is starting a disaster preparedness consulting firm to help clients avoid the sort of errors that cost him his job.
“If I can help people focus on preparedness, how to be better prepared in their homes and [...]

A long rumination.

In the end, Iraq is not about one person’s legacy, a political campaign, or rigid adherence to an ideology.
What is happening in Iraq is about the security of the United States. It is about our men and women in uniform. It is about the future of the Middle East. It is about [...]

Pew Research Center poll on attitudes toward “America’s place in the world.”
Here’s a handful of numbers that jumped out at me:

Percent who believe “efforts to establish a stable democracy in Iraq will succeed”
media: 33
general public: 56
Bush’s job rating approval
media: 21
general public: 40

If nothing else it helps explain the great frustration many Americans express toward the [...]

How many people heard an anti-administration type chortling over the “Bush served plastic turkey to troops in Iraq in ‘03″ story this holiday? I just heard my newsroom co-worker insist, without a shadow of doubt, that it was an absolute, incontrovertible fact that Bush posed with a plastic turkey, pretending it was a real one.
This [...]

Apparently the government is unwilling to use the evidence they tortured out of two Al Qaeda suspects and recieved from Padilla for the three years when he was without counsel.
Hmm…wonder why…
Maybe because evidence you get while waterboarding somebody is…oh…I don’t know…not credible?
The Qaeda members were Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, believed to be the mastermind of the [...]

Not that this day is ALL about food, but let’s face it…we eat more today than probably any other day out of the year.
I’ll be having green bean casserole, Cheezit corn bake surprise, turkey (of course), candied yams, cranberry sauce, mashed potatos and probably a glass of wine (or two).
How about you?

Remember the Bosnian War?
It is a vague memory at best that most of us have regarding events and policy associated with this region, yet it was a hot political topic in its day – with many doubting whether behavior could be changed among the warring factions.
As the 10th anniversary of the Dayton accords [...]

Me: So, what exactly is it that you do?
Kate Moss (with a thick British accent): Have you seen the video?
Me: You mean the one of you dancing around topless and then falling and hitting your head on a wind machine that isn’t safe to view at work?
Kate Moss: Yeah, that’s the [...]

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This post is an update from an original post over at the The Moderate Voice.
The Mirror has more…
THE Daily Mirror was yesterday told not to publish further details from a top secret memo, which revealed that President Bush wanted to bomb an Arab TV station.
The gag by the Attorney General Lord Goldsmith came nearly 24 [...]

After three years, it’s about damn time.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 – Jose Padilla, an American citizen held without charge for more than three years as an enemy combatant, has been indicted in what the federal authorities said today was a plot to “murder, kidnap and maim” people overseas.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who announced the indictment here, [...]

Some say it’s good for America.
Ehh…
Yes, a few billion newly motorized citizens of BRIC – that’s economist-speak for Brazil, Russia, India, and China – have turned up unexpectedly at the filling station, pushing prices sharply north. And yes, the oil world has lately endured more than its usual share of ugly headlines: insurgency in Iraq, [...]

Many on the right have called Democratic leaders liars and revisionists because they said that key intelligence was kept from them on the lead up to war.
The following story reveals that the Democrat’s story could very well be proven slightly more true than false.
Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World [...]

I don’t think so.
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) – Leaders of Iraq’s sharply divided Shiites, Kurds and Sunnis called Monday for a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces in the country and said Iraq’s opposition had a “legitimate right” of resistance.
The final communique, hammered out at the end of three days of negotiations at a preparatory [...]

And they have a good reason.
You see, the ad isn’t correct.
The ad says that as an appellate court judge, Alito has “ruled to make it easier for corporations to discriminate … even voted to approve strip search of a 10-year-old girl.” Referring to a document Alito wrote in 1985 while seeking a job in the [...]

Tigerhawk resurrects my favorite Al Gore quote, and reminds me why I’m almost not ashamed to have voted for him once:

“That’s a no-brainer. Of course it’s a violation of international law, that’s why it’s a covert action. The guy is a terrorist. Go grab his ass.”

What ever happened to that guy?

Just a reminder.
That no matter how cleanly you cut
and how fast you run,
You always leave something behind.

In just a few minutes…
SUBJECT2DISCUSSION now on Tuesdays at 7pm PT to 9pm PT LIVE on www.LVROCKS.com This Tuesday November 22, the program completes its evolution into a magazine type program. Featuring a semi regular bench of guests. This week Dan Riehl of the RiehlWorldView blog will be on in the first hour. Followed by [...]