Month: January 2007

Is discrimination against homosexuals acceptable? That, amazingly, is the question currently being debated in British society. The Equality Act of 2006 (.pdf), which comes into force on April 6th, made discrimination “in...

The following is an excerpt from a Douglas Adams video lecture I linked to in this post. There’s no way I was going to transcribe the entire 87 minute video, but I felt that the conclusion was particularly insightful....

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is voting on amendments to the Biden-Hagel non-binding resolution that expresses the sense of the Senate against escalating increasing the troop levels in Iraq. The most important amendment...

Crossposted from Town Called Dobson click to enlarge I have finally concluded the reason Bush wants to continue the long slog in Iraq is because he is truly the War President. He doesn’t have the mental capacity to think...

Last night marked a unique event the history of the SOTU. The response was a real speech. Jim Webb spoke for the Democrats the way an opposition party should. But it was not just a counter-point to Bush’s policies. He...