Month: July 2006

Captain Ed and Guantanamo

Captain Ed says: I actually prefer the method that Justice Stevens explicitly left open to the Bush administration in his opinion: leave them detained until hostilities cease in the war on terror. Radical Islam does not leave...

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independence

independence…..    On this holiday weekend, I have been dwelling on our nation and the direction it is traveling, and the roads it has already taken. I found myself thinking about the peoples who have been...

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A Fortified Keep Divided

Posted originally at Liberal Street Fighter Sy Hersh has a new piece up, with some details of the internecine battle being waged between the more cautious permagov functionaries in the Pentagon and the Empire Builders of the...

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Just popping in with a few brief thoughts

My wife is doing much better, though she is still in the hospital. If we are lucky she’ll be coming home soon. I’m writing because I’ve had occasion to consider how truly fortunate we are. We have health...

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