Month: September 2005

The past few weeks have been emotional and created a fair amount of soul searching. Part of the emotion is the aftermath of Katrina, part related to politics and the future for the United States as we believed in it, and part is...

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This is the theme that has propelled the Republican domestic and, to a certain extent, even its international agenda. The term ‘Undeserving’ crosses all racial and ethnic barriers and refers to black welfare Queens...

It’s an edgy moment, and there are dangers looming.  The horror of what we’ve just seen in the Katrina zone is still alive.  But sounding alarms is one thing.  Sounding alarmist is another. A popular...

Bloggers on Booman Tribune and Daily Kos as well as elsewhere have rightly made a great deal of the Bush administrations’s revealing that Valerie Plame was an undercover CIA agent. But diaries in the past few days have...