Is Team Obama a Match for Team Hillary?
Here is a short diary meant to provoke some discussion. Let's ignore the source of these quotes to the extent we can. It would be boring to simply rant and rage about Power Line -- been there, done...
View ArticleYou Can Fool All the People All the Time
I made this comment in a long thread and a reply to it requested I expand it and post it as a diary, so here goes.I responded to a comment disagreeing that this blog is NOT "a hotbed of knee-jerk,...
View ArticleWhere do Agricultural Inspection Functions Belong?
Here is an issue of some immediate import - and I'm not referring to pet food.Looking for some thoughtful comment here.Sec of Homeland Security Chertoff is writing to Sen. Feinstein regarding S. 887...
View ArticleLet Us Discuss What Credible Candidates Say They are About
There are some interesting things being said by candidates. Perhaps there are some common themes that ought to find their way into an agenda for '08, no matter who carries the flag.I've devoted this...
View ArticleObama: Charisma is Not Leadership
Here is the problem with Obama: charisma (sometimes incorrectly defined as "leadership") is no substitute for fundamental, strategic political goals and principles or the established political...
View ArticleThe Rescue on Mt. Hood
Does anyone find it odd that all these resources are expended in this way? To be sure, we want to respond to save lives when we know people are in harm's way. That said, where are our priorities? How...
View ArticleWhy the US Invaded Iraq
George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld and the others who are responsible for the USA adventure in Iraq cannot be shamed.They don't see what they've done as a mistake.That is because "victory" or a...
View ArticleWhat People Can Do
We can only move forward to debate and decide responsible policy on the plethora of issues we all know need serious work when we disconnect K Street from the process of government.We need to get our...
View ArticlePriorities for 2008: What is the Most Imporant Policy Reform Needed?
What should be our priorities for 2008 and beyond?Clearly two things stand out right away: 1)a comprehensive foreign policy for America in the 21st century; and 2) reform of our entitlements to once...
View ArticlePelosi the Day After: How to Counter the Punditry and the Spin
Remember that no one will recall the Hoyer/Murtha "fight" tomorrow. It was good for one or two news cycles at most. Game over - case closed -- what's next? The challenge is how to counter the corporate...
View ArticleDemocrats and the Culture of Corruption
I'll give you an alternative to Murtha and Hoyer: my congressman Chris Van Hollen. Why? He's a terrific legislator - proved in the Maryland state legislature as a guy who can get things done, round...
View ArticleDisappointed in Pelosi
I'm disappointed in Nancy Pelosi's putting politics over principle and endorsing Rep. Murtha for majority leader. She should have stayed out of it and allowed the contest between Murtha and Steny Hoyer...
View ArticleAn essay on Arrogance and Corruption in Government
Are you sitting comfortably? At first glance Arrogance and Corruption in Government may seem unenchanting, however its study is a necessity for any one wishing to intellectually advance beyond their...
View ArticleBedrock Centrism: What We Want
How best to express most succinctly what the problem is for both left and right? From that, what should a united centrism be all about -- what do we want? Here's an idea: Let the spirit of Reform be...
View ArticleWhy Did White House Snub Foley Two Years Ago?
What did President Bush personally know about Mark Foley and when did he know it? When a President visits the home distict of a member of Congress, even if that member is from the other party, it is...
View ArticleKrugman Is Beside the Point
Ok, I found Krugman's piece and I think he booted the ball. Krugman's points are superficially ok, but his reasoning strikes me as beside the point -- the point is not that paranoids are running our...
View ArticleIs Paul Krugman Reading My Posts?
I don't subscribe to the New York Times, nor have online access to its columnists -- but I noted that Paul Krugman wrote a column Oct 9: The Paranoid Style By PAUL KRUGMAN Dennis Hastert, the speaker...
View ArticleThe Endangered United States of America
Today we ignore the need for fundamental reform of government at the risk of losing the very democratic nature of our country. There are two aspects of this. First, the very basis of our democracy is...
View ArticleDo You Believe in God? Whatever do you mean by that?
Religion isn't very funny, actually. I agree with author Sam Harris that those who hold literal beliefs in the tenets of many organized religions -- moderate or extreme -- are very dangerous to the...
View ArticleIraq: Pasting feathers together, hoping for a duck?
A vision, somewhat like the airborne toxic event in Delillo's "White Noise," begins to take form behind the incessant news coverage of the fighting in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan. This cloudy menace...
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