Month: May 2007

It has been almost exactly ten years since the Project for a New American Century laid out their statement of principles and set this country on the road to preemptive war in Iraq. I thought it would be interesting to see where...

So will Alberto Gonzales depart?  Some opine he’s toast. Is it a matter of when, not if? I love a two-fer one. It may end as a hat trick. The position of US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales looks increasingly in...

(cross-posted at Daily Kos) I didn’t have a chance to watch the second GOP presidential debate – aside from not having cable television at my home in New York, I don’t watch Fox News on principle. Nevertheless,...

As Howard Dean teaches us, there is no such thing as an unimportant election. If we want our country back, we need to take it back one precinct at a time. On my personal blog I have excerpted a series of chapters from the...

For the last three years (ever since it became clear that the invasion and occupation of Iraq would end in ignominy) we’ve been told that serious people know that we must stay in Iraq. For the last two and half years (ever...