Author: Cogitator

You can call it politics. You can call it anything you want. I call it craven cowardice and chickenheartedness. Just how many more times will the presently constituted GOP hide behind the uniforms of our military troops? How...

An excerpt from a Ron Suskind, October 17, 2005, New York Times Magazine article:     “In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn’t like about Bush’s...

Jimmy Baker? Did President Bush deliberately diss the ringleader of the The Iraq Study Group (ISG – James Baker, Lee Hamilton, Robert M. Gates, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Edwin Meese III , Sandra Day O’Connor, Leon E....

Making America ‘safer’ and culture-less English poet Les Barker is being hassled over obtaining a visa that will allow him to come back to America and perform yet again. Why? The official word is that Les isn’t...

Just exactly how far we as a nation have fallen came clear to me again by two recent incidents. Vice President Dick Cheney said in a radio interview recently that he believes the war in Iraq is going “remarkably...