These are two words that get thrown around quite a bit on the right. And given some recent news, I’d like to explore them. See, the Pulitzer Prizes were awarded and guess what? The NY Times reporters who broke the warrantless wiretapping story won a Pulitzer. But apparently to some on the right, their mere [...]

That’s right, I’m officially throwing my hat in the race…but it’s not for political office. However, oddly enough, if you vote for me it could help me make this site bigger and better, Intrigued? Well my friends…read further… Basically, I’ve entered a “create your own commercial” contest for 98.9 “The Rock”, a local radio station [...]

Michael Totten has another great essay about his travels in the not-so-newly liberated country. A taste… It’s hard to convey what it’s actually like meeting Iraqi Kurds. Fleshing out the dialogue doesn’t capture the feel of it. Americans and Kurds don’t just get along because we’re temporary allies of convenience in the Middle East. The [...]

They speak a different language and their roots are in an alien culture. Yet still they come north. North is where the jobs are. Menial jobs, but jobs that pay well, compared to what they might make at home. And even though some of the local laborers grumble that the immigrants are driving down their [...]

Nope. Or so says Austin Centrist. It seems to be that it is not that complicated. Merely supporting Centrists from either existing party should do the trick with far less brain damage. The less candidates need to rely on funding from ideologues the more likely their judgement is to be balanced. In every race there [...]

There was an acute sickness that hit the Democratic party last election. It was called ABB Syndrome or Anybody But Bush Syndrome. Yes, I was stricken by this bug on more than one occasion, but thankfully it never fully developed into full blown BDS. It came close. I wrote a scathing newsletter every week detailing [...]

I’ve written about Charles Murray’s new book In Our Hands recently, most notably right below this post. In fact, I’m currently pouring through the pages. Interesting ideas whose time may be coming soon. That’s why when I got an email blast from Mark Satin of the Radical Middle that discussed the book, I had to [...]

You’re not alone. In fact, a majority of Americans see the system as unfair, particularly towards the middle class, self-employed and small business owners. More… WASHINGTON – Taxes rise and fall from one administration to the next, but the unpopularity of the income tax system is constant. An Ipsos Poll finds that almost six of [...]

FEMA has said this home is habitable. And this one… And this one… More… The Federal Emergency Management Agency has notified about 8,900 heads of households in Houston, representing more than 20,000 Katrina evacuees, that they will be ineligible for the cash assistance intended to replace a massive city voucher program that has paid their [...]

Know what that’s a picture of? If you guessed Three Mile Island, you’d be right. Not a very good way to start out a post about the upsides of nuclear energy, eh? Well, just wait. Sure, we’ve seen a few examples of nuclear plants going wrong over the years, but what about the good? Well, [...]

You know I’m no fan of the Democraps, but the Repuglicans have crossed some irrevocable line in my mind with this particularly despicable piece of political smear and lying. Ronald Brownstein in the L.A. Times: [In a] joint statement House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) issued last week [...]

Awhile back, Justin asked if anyone wanted to do a book report on the Doomsday Scenario. So here it is. Anyways, I’ll cut straight to the chase. There’s no especially stunning revelations to be had from the documents that were declassified. There’s a lot of stuff in there that’s of historical interest, but honestly, I [...]

Someone who can do simple math might want to check the following figures, but with that caveat… The population of Iran is about 68 million. (Only a third of which are certifiably insane.) Their per capita GDP is listed as $7,700. Their oil minister recently boasted that this figure would rise to 10 g’s a [...]

More and more retired Major Generals are stepping forward and saying Rumsfeld should step down. What do you think, and why?

Today’s New York Sun column by John P. Avlon (subscribers only, free trial available), author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics, deals with the base stupidity (pun intended) of Democrats attempting a vicious ideological purge of a successful, popular, proven one of their own. When a Democratic senator consistently gets 60% of [...]

Six retired generals have now called for Rummy to step down. Rumblings of a military mutiny. Seymour Hersh’s notorious New Yorker article on war plans for Iran also states that some of the Joint Chiefs have threatened to resign if the nuclear bunker-buster option is not taken off the table. Bottom line: our magnificent military [...]

Jeff Goldstein on the latest “South Park.” As most of you know by now, Comedy Central censored last night’s episode of “South Park,â€Â? refusing to run an image of Mohammedâ€â€?evidently out of cultural sensitivity to those who Comedy Central executives fear might, I dunno, key their cars? Write angry emails? Or maybe there really is [...]

When Major Generals from THIS war are saying you should go…you should go… The retired commander of key forces in Iraq called yesterday for Donald H. Rumsfeld to step down, joining several other former top military commanders who have harshly criticized the defense secretary’s authoritarian style for making the military’s job more difficult. “I think [...]

Here’s the conclusion…. It is vitally important for the future of progressive politics that people of liberal, egalitarian and internationalist outlook should now speak clearly. We must define ourselves against those for whom the entire progressive-democratic agenda has been subordinated to a blanket and simplistic ‘anti-imperialism’ and/or hostility to the current US administration. The values [...]