Reading Comprehension, Anyone?

I just saw this amusing line in a commentary about the “no comprehensive files at Gitmo” story (I have bolded the line I am referring to; the rest is included for context and clarity): It is interesting that the Bush administration believed it had the right to detain terrorism suspects...

Gitmo Detainee Paperwork “Scattered All Over Executive Branch”

I wish I could say that I am shocked by the news — reported by Karen DeYoung and Peter Finn in the Washington Post –  that the case records for Guantanamo detainees are an unholy mess, incomplete, missing or lost, with crucial paperwork piled on desks or shoved in desk drawers, sitting in boxes...

The Rhetoric is Ratcheting Up

Much has been made lately of Rush Limbaugh’s intemperate comments expressing a desire for the president to fail.  This was simply a more blatant expression than Ken Blackwell’s convoluted reasoning that President Obama’s economic stimulus plan was little more than a craven effort to secure...

Malice Just Because

There are some news items that, in the grand scheme of things, are fairly trivial, and yet somehow feel sadder to me than I would expect to feel. When this happens, I find the reason is less in the news item itself and more in the response to it. Today, there were two such stories — and I would not...

Inauguration 2009: End of an Error, Beginning of a Movement

January 20, 2009 was a day of rewriting and redefining possibilities in America. It was a day of triumph and celebration, of sacrifice and tears. A beautiful black family, full of love and no stranger to hard times, will enter the history books as 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, begins...