One positive thing I’ll say about President Bush is this: You have to give the man credit for being honest. President Bush offered up a new entry for his catalog of “Bushisms” on Thursday, declaring that his administration will “never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people.” Special thanks to […]

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How ironic is this? I found that little tidbit by accident while unsuccessfully searching for an online version of a story that appeared on page one of today’s print edition of The Fresno Bee. The title of that story was “Bush Hammers Iraq-Al Qaeda Link.”

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Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don’t want war: neither in Russia, nor in […]

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Elsewhere, in comments to several other posts, a gNat-driven debate has periodically raged about “Liberals” — which gNat says are “Democrats” even if many, like me, aren’t Democrats (and even though gNat has been repeatedly told that I’m not a Democrat) — “hating” the President. Mark King has noted that “[Conservatives] knew they couldn’t argue […]

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Mark King recently pointed me to an article on Salon that definitely requires a good look-see. There’s no time for me to write extensive commentary on my lunch break here, but the following exchange during a Q&A with the former Commander of CENTCOM (Central Command, responsible for the Middle East) was too funny not to […]

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Maybe we don’t really need to strike the entire phrase. Just the last word. Why? Try this, for starters. Bob found the article; both of us found it compelling.

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A U.S. diplomat wrote, The September 11 tragedy left us stronger than before, rallying around us a vast international coalition to cooperate for the first time in a systematic way against the threat of terrorism. But rather than take credit for those successes and build on them, this administration has chosen to make terrorism a […]

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I had decided tonight that I wasn’t going to write; instead, I was going to read. So I took a (virtual) stroll over to Lex Communis, where I’m often entertained (and sometimes learn something) by Peter Sean Bradley, Esquire. Mr. Bradley is (normally) a pretty smart man. He and I don’t always agree on things […]

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I was reading De Novo today when I ran across an interesting article that I thought might provoke our history buffs. That article, itself, was inspired by one from Professor Volokh of The Volokh Conspiracy and summarizes what Volokh asked this way: The question is: Since 1960, which Cabinet-level officials or CIA directors have had […]

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You would think that a US military policeman in Iraq would have a strict set of orders on how to treat prisoners if for no other reason than the Geneva Convention. Or how about the concept that we are better than our enemy? Or maybe the question of what the world would think if we […]

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