(Buzzflash, 8/23/2003)

The President has been busy during his vacation. He's traveled to several fund-raising events, for example, and played a lot of golf. However, he has yet to attend a single funeral or speak to even one widow or orphan or mother of our dead soldiers.

(Democratic Underground, 8/13/2003)

As our soldiers suffer in Iraq with inadequate water, food, sanitation, and shelter, President George W. "Bring 'em On" Bush treated his top fundraisers to a private barbecue near his ranch. ...

(Democratic Underground, 5/20/2003)

In a stunning reversal of long-cherished states' rights doctrine, Texas Republicans now favor a strong national government with the power to dictate policy to the states. Texas has long valued independence. Beginning with the struggle to separate from Mexico, Texans have resisted efforts by polit

(Buzzflash.com (link), 4/5/2003)

Tongue in cheek commentary on the relationship between the news media and the White House.

(Alternet, 2/19/2003)

The America I know is not an empire. It's a small, comfortable place where my grandpa took me fishing when I was little, and where we swam in shallow rivers while bluegill darted between our legs. It's four generations of family jamming itself into the kitchen to talk while the Thanksgiving turkey co

(Democratic Underground, 2/8/2003)

One still cannot tune into a discussion of Iraq without a neo-con bringing up The Gassing of His Own People as a reason to go to war. Yes, it was a terrible thing. I remember the photographs of the bloated bodies of mothers, their arms still wrapped around their dead children. This happened in 1988.

(Democratic Underground, 12/12/2002)

You've heard about how Republican Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi got a tad carried away during a one-hundredth birthday celebration for the antique Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina by recalling with fondness Strom's third-party run for the presidency back in 1948. Strom was a Democrat

(Democratic Underground, 12/4/2002)

Just when you thought George W. Bush couldn't get more outrageous, he appoints Henry Kissinger to head the "independent" September 11 investigation. Julian Borger writes in The Guardian that Americans reacted to this appointment with "relief mixed with nostalgic affection," while Europeans were s

(The Mahablog, 7/7/2002)

I do not believe, as some do, that the President deliberately enabled the September 11 attacks for political gain. For one thing, the attacks clearly threw him off guard; he fluttered around the country in Air Force One like a startled pigeon for several hours before he got a grip on himself and retu

(The Mahablog, 4/20/2003)

For decades, Teapot Dome was at the top of the list of Really Bad Political Scandals of America, if only because it's easier to spell than Crédit Mobilier. Finally it was knocked out of its Number One spot by Watergate. But Watergate was primarily a scandal of misuse of power, whereas Teapot Dome rem

(The Mahablog, 3/5/2003)

You probably know that the United States and the Philippines have long had issues and history. You may not know how much that history has in common with our impending war in Iraq. Here's a quick review.

(The Mahablog, 5/15/2003)

It's too early to say much about Deanna LaJune Laney, the Tyler Texas mother who bashed two of her children to death with rocks. All that can be said is that she doesn't have a prayer. I followed the Andrea Yates trial closely, and came to the conclusion that Texas is not only like a whole 'noth

(Scoop (New Zealand), 9/25/2002)

When the German justice minister compared you to Hitler, she was just insulting you, not the entire United States. Condi Rice says there is a poisoned atmosphere between the United States and Germany, but that's not true at all. I don't feel insulted the least bit, and I think I speak for most Americ

(William James & Co., 7/20/2004)

While the powerful few have struggled to gain tighter control of mass media, a new medium for political dialogue has emerged—the Internet. This new medium cultures robust political dialogue among people across the nation and around the world. And leading this discussion—generating topics, presenting