The True Cost of Lies and Deception

I couldn’t in good conscience let this tragic milestone pass without notice. The major news services are reporting that as of today, more members of the US military have died in the Iraq conflict (2978) than people who were killed as a direct result of the September 11, 2001 attacks (2973). Unlike the...

"How the GOP Lost Its Way"

Today’s Washington Post published an article titled, “How the GOP Lost Its Way“. Although its author is not kind to Democrats, the article spells out in detail what is wrong with the attitude of the Republican leadership toward ordinary people. Most of us who read this blog are Democrat...

Discussion or Distraction?

So the current topic of national discussion is immigration. Congress is arguing about it, the president has commented on it, public demonstrations about it are happening across the US. Why now? Just like other recent topics of national discussion, such as same-sex marriage or abortion, this is another issue...

The Politics of Fear

Numerous news sources, including this New York Times article, are reporting today on GW Bush’s announcement that a terror attack was blocked in early 2002. I won’t repeat the details, you can read them almost anywhere. The point is, once again GW Bush plays the politics of fear when his public...

"Deficit cracking GOP’s solidarity"

Our local ultra-conservative newspaper actually printed nearly half of this article, which was originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday November 27th 2005. I looked up the original article, and found it raises many interesting points. Here are just a few: Total spending increases under...