Neo-Conservative Ascendancy in the George W. Bush Administration

A really interesting perspective on the connections between the neo-conservitive movement and their relationship with the Middle East and Israel as viewed from outside the protective bubble of the conservative media in the U.S. Although this is a republication of a series of articles that first ran in May...

Who has the knowledge and experience to lead us into – and out of – war?

Stealing a line from Dick Cheney, let’s let the “record speak for itself”. DEMOCRATS Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71. David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72. Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72. Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an army...

Religious Freedom, an American Value

We tend to hunt down the opinions and ideas that mirror our own. This is to be expected. I think we should all spend time arguing our opinions at our “opposites” web sites and using our friend’s house to discuss what we learned away from the safety of our home. At the end of Karl’s...

Perspective on America

What does America represent? To us? To the rest of the world? America, the Idea of America, is not what our founding fathers wrote into the Constitution and Bill of Rights, but rather what is not. It is in how her people have chosen to act on and interpret and re-interpret that law based on what is not...