To impeach, or not to impeach?

On the first anniversary of the American incursion into Vietnam, a handful of college professors and radical beatniks started to make a little noise, but were dismissed as nuts.
At two years a few more had joined the movement, largely still members of the same “nut” crowd.
At three years, with the introduction of the hippies into [...]

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Well done, Iraq

This weekend, Iraq’s national soccer team won the Asian Cup, largely due to the efforts of their three-man strike team of one Sunni, one Shiite and one Kurd.
People of all three sects set aside their conflict and celebrated together as brothers, if only for a short time.
The next time I’m obsessing about soccer when [...]

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Faith Based Initiative

In answer to the recent furore over tax-exempt religious entities being given federal funding for faith-based initiatives, I opined to a colleague that there should be some means of ensuring that the money be distributed equally among all faiths rather than predominantly to Christianity. My colleague suggested that something so equitable would never work in [...]

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Fox Logic

In a stunning example of “what ass-backward planet are YOU from?”, Fox News has claimed that national health care (not coincidentally being proposed by a number of Democratic candidates) will lead to an increase in terrorism.
While I understand that a couple of doctors in Britain’s National Health Service were part of a recent terrorist plot, [...]

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Libby Sentence Commuted

WASHINGTON – In a controversial but not entirely unexpected decision, President Bush decided today that his good buddy and former vice-presidential chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby didn’t need to serve jail time after all. ***
Sources close to the Bush camp say that the president was “extremely concerned” at the idea of Mr. Libby [...]

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