Month: July 2006

…Jefferson and Madison understood the dangers of commercial monopolies of all types and tried to assure they never would exist in the new nation. They, in fact, wanted two additional amendments added to the “Bill of...

At the end of Seattle’s Drinking Liberally gathering each week, David Goldstein of horsesass.org moderates a podcast with local bloggers, elected officials and activists. This last week, in David’s vacation absence,...

Keepinon posted the following flattering comment yesterday under my daily nerdly posting to the News Bucket: Hey KP: Knowing what you know (I look to you for current info on a vast variety of topics), and living where you live,...

What the Bush offers with one hand he takes away with the other. Remember not so long ago when Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley met with GOP Senators, Lindsay Graham, John McCain and...

Well, this can’t be good news.  At Tuesday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing regarding Islam and the West, terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman of the RAND Corporation testified on Al Qaeda and his...