In his Time Magazine oped, James Dobson makes the case that a father is important to the development of a boy, particularly. He doesn’t exactly say it, but what he’s getting at is that he thinks it keeps the boy from becoming a homosexual. What is absolutely remarkable is that he’s going way out of […]
Two Mommies Is One Too Many A number of social conservatives, myself included, have recently been asked to respond to the news that Mary Cheney, the Vice President’s daughter, is pregnant with a child she intends to raise with her lesbian partner. Implicit in this issue is an effort to get us to criticize the […]
Intelligence panel’s ‘Phase Two’ to be completed next year: Rockefeller The three unreleased sections of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s controversial “Phase Two” report on the Bush administration’s use of prewar intelligence are headed for circulation next year, incoming Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) told The Hill late last week. “One does not want to spend all […]
2nd pastor resigns over gay sex scandal The founding pastor of a second Colorado church has resigned over gay sex allegations, just weeks after the evangelical community was shaken by the scandal surrounding megachurch leader Ted Haggard. … On Sunday, Paul Barnes, founding pastor of the 2,100-member Grace Chapel in this Denver suburb, told […]
Machiavelli’s rules rest upon a clear-eyed view of human nature. If you think that people are basically good and, left to their own devices, will create loving communities and good governments, you’ve learned nothing from him. Machiavelli’s world is populated by people more inclined to do evil than good, whose instincts are distinctly antisocial. These […]
The Constitution of the United States: Article. II. – Section. 4. The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. The word "high" is from English Law and means "against the State." […]
I think we’ve learned enough to now know that the 2000 Presidential Election was really about the future of America’s relationship with oil. Al Gore, as it turns out, is all about his "Inconvenient Truth" – the truth that beyond the fact that we’ll ultimately run out of fossil fuels, if we don’t curb their […]
There have been a lot of things along the way that have seemed serendipity – George W. Bush running, Cheney picking himself as the Vice Presidential Candidate, ignoring the roar from the intelligence community about Al Qaeda in early 2001. Maybe they’re not so random after all. Bush and Rove brought something strong to the […]
In his 1999 speech at the London Petroleum Institute in London, Dick Cheney, C.E.O. of Halliburton, spoke to the assembled oil barons about the some of the problems in oil acquisition: Governments and the national oil companies are obviously controlling about ninety per cent of the assets. Oil remains fundamentally a government business. While many […]
It’s only been fourteen months since New York Times reporter, Judith Miller, ended her three month stint in jail for refusing to talk to Patrick Fitzgerald about her sources in the C.I.A. leak case involving Valerie Plame. It seems a lot longer than that to me. It was a different time, even though it wasn’t […]