While I hold a belief that Christians and Churches themselves determine the “Christian” portion of “Christian Nation”, it is also flatly untrue that “our founding fathers rested this nation on Christian principles.” If the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and their most influential writers (like Thomas Paine) were to be gathered together today in front of a panel of Continue Reading

The war extends to those who would provide evidence for its true costs. I recall the soldier who called Seymour Hersh in tears about a military slaughter of Iraqi civilians guarding a local business, a group of Iraqis his unit had recently befreinded while they camped and awaited new orders. Hersh told him to serve his time and keep quiet Continue Reading

This , from Weblosky, on a guy, George Tenet, whose INtelligence Agencies were unable to send photos from one place to another, presumes to expound on the fine points of Internet security. Here we have a scary case of knowing just enough to be dangerous (where the knowledge here is in “who you know” rather than WHAT you know….and the Continue Reading

This , from comments by a German reader on Daily KOS: Daily Kos :: Four more years… of what? a newly confident President Bush, who described his future method of handling allies with this memorable formula: ,,I will reach out to others and explain why I make the decisions I make.” He might as well say, “I’ll reach out across Continue Reading

This great line from Michael Keaton in Night Shift (I watched this for the first time on my honeymoon in our room one night) seems to also fit the Bush White House , in light of this story: WASHINGTON (AP) – One-third of President George W. Bush’s top 2000 fundraisers or their spouses were appointed to positions in his first Continue Reading

Eric has a post about the ire of the Right being directed toward Kevin Sites for DARING to simply report what he saw. Eric’s Tasty Morsels of Thought – Seeping Hatred Toward Kevin Sites Eric says in his post: Only in today’s climate raw facts can and are seen as partisan tools. I guess that’s what comes from being a Continue Reading

Carlos over at Jesus Politics links to this Lakoff article, which I have excerpted a choice chunk: Jesus Politics: Our Moral Values are Better link to Common Dreams (article from The Nation) By talking to their base, they are activating their base model in swing voters. When liberals move to the right, they are shooting themselves in both feet: They Continue Reading

David Sanger writes in the NY Times of how the fears about Bush’s hawkish staff leading to further involvement may be premature:

Interesting, and I’ll have to say, somewhat encouraging, even though that would mean hardships on all of us, it needs to be done to say to the U.S.: You are not an island, and not untouchable. Live and learn. The Role of Boycotts in the Fight for Peace Sporadic and spontaneous boycotts, local in form, have been taking place in Continue Reading

Silicon Valley – Dan Gillmor’s eJournal – Powell’s Departure, Disappointing Tenure I do not now and have never understood the adulation heaped upon Colin Powell. With the exception of the Powell Doctrine (which he’s been happy enough to jettison for two Bushes), his actions demonstrate that he’s not an independent thinker, wants to be a team player for the military Continue Reading

Really unbelievable. How on earth the American people stand for this is beyond me. Pompus, self-righteous, and criminal, Delay is a modern day decendant of the Pharisees (but that might be unfair to the Pharisees….the ones that Jesus railed against are the group where Delay came from) Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of Continue Reading

US PR/puppet/PM Allawi gives us the BS, as told by this post from Juan Cole Informed Comment Now Allawi wants to deny that residents of a city that has been invaded and crushed managed to escape without a scratch unless they were active guerrillas. Col. Mike Shupp joined in this vaudeville act, denying that there was a humanitarian crisis in Continue Reading

Josh points to this cool aggregation of Blog News from Left, Center, and Right: THE DAOU REPORT

This is a good debunker of the moral superiority of the “Red States”

I like this. Good use of THEIR arguments for a “mandate” by saying Bush had more votes than anyone in history. Kerry was second. That kind of takes the wind out of the sails right there. Then, there’s this gem: WorkingForChange-Echoing Bush’s line won’t help Democrats More Americans voted against Mr. Bush than any other Presidential candidate in the nation’s Continue Reading