Tomasky, editor of American Prospect, I trust, means well but his endless twining of small r-republicanism is utterly irrelevant to the times, together with his distorted view on the conditions for big D-Democrats to endorse the universal “common good” in the mire of particularism of the current political climate, which appears to exhale “enough of Bush,” yet despite his low popularity, even censure is taboo. When push comes to shove, the reality is that the common voter is incapable of ...
WASHINGTON - President Bush dismissed as "wild speculation" reports that the administration was planning for a military strike against Iran. Bush did not rule out the use of force, but he said he would continue to use diplomatic pressure to prevent Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon or the know-how and technology to make one. "I know here in Washington prevention means force," Bush said at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. "It does...
Back in the 30s communism gave socialism a bad name; FDR changed it to the New Deal. In the 50s Senator McCarthy changed the New Deal back to communism. While Hillary Clinton as First Lady was busy selling the country on Universal Health Care, corporations secretly were hungrily supporting it until the Republicans shot it down as socialized medicine. Now as corporations are nearing bankruptcy owing to escalating health insurance for their employees, they might this time put their collect...
The problem, dear Citizen, does not lie with the Dubai Crescent, but within ourselves. Though I was for dumping Dubai, it was not owing to racism, national security, or post 9/11 anxiety, but rather to dramatize the need for limiting our selling off American enterprise. After all, the city ports have their duly municipal authorized agencies to oversee their security — not to mention the rugged American stevedore unions — and, of course, the Coastguard, though woefully shortchanged...
Bush is toying with the idea that to sustain his fortitude to stay the course is to go back to drinking. To agree with Bush and McCain on the guest worker position Ted Kennedy had to guzzle down one too many tequilas. It’s rumored that smart ass Chris Matthews claims that Nancy Pelosi would have to emblematically put on an armored vest and helmet to track down Bin Laden to further the new get-tough on security policy forged by the Democrats. This would parallel Dukakis peering out...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Swedish court has imposed a 20,000 kronor ($2,600) fine on a woman kennel owner who refused to sell a puppy to a lesbian. The kennel owner, who was not identified, had initially been willing to sell the woman a puppy but changed her mind when she found out the woman was living with a lesbian partner, according to Sweden's discrimination ombudsman, a government watchdog who filed the lawsuit. I suppose, the free enterprise folks would defend the business owner on t...
When in the throes of war, troops find it difficult to elaborate on the bright side. The Post’s National Weekly Edition interviewed, supposedly in depth, a hundred troops in Iraq. Critics will immediately pounce on the article as skewed in order to emphasize the dark side of war. The criticism would be unwarranted and unrealistic even though Post showed a picture of an American soldier seated midst Iraqi school children in a classroom built by US troops — admittedly safely ensconced in a po...
All the talk about amnesty guest workers for illegal immigrants is pointless without first fixing the current chaos at the borders. Any political solution to the existing illegal immigrants now working within the economy will only further serve as an incentive for others to invade our borders. We must set up a viable military bloc along the borders and treat the violators as criminals and immediately sent back to their home country. Further, the Secretary of State’s office must insist that the...
Personally, I believe there is highly probable cause to impeach both Bush and Cheney, as is a very slim majority in agreement. It would generate so much controversy that the nation would lose sight — more than it does now — of the exigencies of the greater good. There is little doubt that the dynamic duo would be found guilty of charges that they deceived the people in believing Saddam was connected to the 9/11 tragedy, that he possessed WMD of so pressing a matter that we should not wait for ...
To crudely paraphrase Jefferson who said there should be a political revolution every generation to keep government on the path of integrity. The current political scene surely is probable cause for a revolutionary change in the ways things are done or more so not done. Foreign Affairs The Afghanistan conflict now in its fifth year and proportionately just as bloody as Iraq is essentially a forgotten war. Though we try to give aid and comfort to its people, it is cumbersome and m...
WASHINGTON - President Bush said Tuesday that American forces will remain in Iraq for years and it will be up to a future president to decide when to bring them all home. But defying critics and plunging polls, he declared, "I'm optimistic we'll succeed. If not, I'd pull our troops out." Just what is this supposed to mean? That it will be up to the next president who will have to be pessimistic to pull out the troops? How about a president who will be realistic and say "enough already"? ...
With few exceptions — Murtha, Pelosi, Dean, Feingold — Democrats are fearful of taking on the President. For that reason alone I now shred DNC solicitation for funds. Any opposing party that does not oppose is no party at all, particularly in the throes of this blatantly authoritarian body politic. Republicans who fawn over the president is understandable and expected — despite Bush’s currently falling popularity — but for Democrats to have wilted under the flurries of pressure for the ...
Flamethrower's Remarks really very simple, George is the epitome of everything the far left hates. George is Pro-American the far left is NOT! George is for traditional values, the Far left hates traditional values and is looking to turn America into Europe. George keeps his word, the left has no word to keep. George believes marriage is between a man and women, the left believes it's between a man and child, two women or two men, soon to come, man an...
Obviously the preferred scenario in Palestine is that the Hamas go away. Nevertheless, it must be reckoned with and would be foolish for the Bush administration, originally cool but accepting, to repeat the mistakes — not unlike those in the early Fidel Castro days — by not backing Palestine’s new government or insisting on preconditions. We should not lecture them, but rather encourage that they scramble for decent governance and wish them well. The US can always withdraw moral and financial ...
I can sympathize — not empathize — with the right to life enthusiasts who believe a fetus in its early formative stage should not be aborted, but I draw the line when they insist the right to life is unconditional, such as out of incest, rape or one under age. However, I give them absolutely no leeway when it comes to over the counter contraceptive Plan B or emergency contraception that — not to be confused with the abortion pill RU-486 — effectively prevents unwanted pregnancy ...