Democratic Congress May Be Flurry Of Activity Early … incoming Senate Intelligence Committee chair Jay Rockefeller, who has appeared to be invisible at times, himself now promises that he will pursue a “cleanup agenda” when he takes over. Among the things that Rockefeller will dig into first will be the long-stalled Phase Two inquiry on […]
Retaliatory Violence Against Sunni Muslims Erupts in Baghdad As the death toll from Thursday’s barrage of car bombs, mortars and missiles in Baghdad’s Shiite Muslim heartland of Sadr City rose to more than 200 on Friday, political cracks began appearing in the Iraqi government and retaliatory attacks against Sunni Muslims erupted in some Baghdad neighborhoods. […]
TO: Mark Foley, former U.S. Congressman Ted Haggard, former President of the National Association of Evangelicals RE: Your recent resignations CC: James Dobson, Focus on the Family The American people Both of your resignations came after revelations of personal behavior that was in marked contrast to your public stance on important issues in the current […]
President-elect of Christian Coalition resigns The Reverend elected to take over as president of the Christian Coalition of America said he will not assume the role because of differences in philosophy. The Rev. Joel Hunter, of Longwood’s Northland, A Church Distributed, said Wednesday that the national group would not let him expand the organization’s agenda […]
Pachacutec of Firedoglake has an excellent post up about Dick Cheney as a paranoid person using the formulations in Shapiro’s classic, Neurotic Styles. The more definitive discussions of Paranoia are in the work of W.W. Meissner [Psychotherapy and the Paranoid Process]. Meissner describes the paranoid person as extremely fragile, intolerant of emotional ambiguity of any […]
What does it mean that every blogger is writing about Cheney and his A.E.I. friends are probably going to bomb Iran? I wonder how many Americans think that’s a good idea, bombing Iran? I wonder how many of us believe that what the Administration says about Iran is true? I wonder how many of us […]
US Could Bomb Iran Nuclear Sites in 2007 President George W. Bush could choose military action over diplomacy and bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities next year, political analysts in Washington agree. "I think he is going to do it," John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, a military issues think tank, told AFP. "They are going to bomb […]
I was thinking about tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day, and its history. The original was to celebrate the survival of the Pilgrims, after a grim winter. Last year, this time, we had our first group Thanksgiving at Stump Hill, a playhouse we built for such gatherings. It was a grand occasion, but I remember thinking there wasn’t […]
Looking for Cheney Where did the vice president stand on the question of firing Rumsfeld? Where does he stand now? In the 10 days since President Bush fired Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, one figure is eerily missing from public view and public accounts of what occurred: Vice President Dick Cheney. As usual, America’s de facto […]
What is the point of the Michael Richards incident? or for that matter, the Mel Gibson incident earlier this year? Well for one thing, Gibson was drunk. Was Richards drunk? He certainly looks like that might be a possibility in the video. Besides that possiblility, he was being heckled and blew up with a remarkable […]