Month: March 2007

[Crossposted at myleftwing.]   I’ve been banned from dailykos (it happened back on February 22). I haven’t been told why (with all that implies or does not imply (other than that kos is busy and I’m a...

Despite the Republican dominance of American politics since George W. Bush ‘won’ election in 2000, the two major parties have been, in historical terms, quite evenly matched. In two straight presidential elections...

Last week when I listened to Audio on NPR’s Talk of the Nation: A Look at an Autistic Savant’s Brilliant Mind, I noted the points in the discussion with Daniel Tammet that I wanted to revisit. Since my next work...

Also at DKos. Happy fourth! We’ve turned more corners in Iraq than there are in Manhattan, so I’m skeptical about early reports that the surge strategy is working.  General David Petraeus, the U.S. commander in...

While millions disappear daily into the Iraqi quagmire, some domestic programs are collapsing.  One of these, the National Wildlife Refuge system, has previously indicated that the worst problems are in the southeastern...