Month: January 2008

Americans want a real political leader, a real change agent.  Ron Paul has never been a change agent.  He is a change-talker.  His claim to fame is voting against legislation, not writing bold legislation to...

Well, hell.  That sure didn’t take long, did it?  A day after Obama wins Iowa, we see nervous folk of the Pantload and Corndog persuasion having figured out how he did it: Because Democrats think Rodney King/OJ...

Welcome back. This week we will be an entirely new scene.  I’m painting on a 10 x 10 canvas using my usual acrylics. When we were last together I had completed the Sonoran desert scene and was intending to paint...

. Two slain U.S. soldiers were killed by Iraqi soldier BAGHDAD (Reuters) Jan. 4, 2008 – An Iraqi soldier is believed to have deliberately shot dead two US troops in Iraq – the first time this has happened there. A...

Challenging the executive’s abuses of the last few years will require some new approaches and some help from largely unheralded actors. For more on pruning back executive power see The Pruning Shears.Last year was a...