Archives for November 12, 2010

I continue to wonder why George Bush came out with his memoirs especially now given that his failed presidency is still raw in people’s psyche. You would think that he would at least have dotted his “I”s and crossed his “T”s. An implicit confession of being a war criminal by authorizing waterboarding without the ability […]

Jon Stewart was on Rachel Maddows show last night and continuously try pass himself off as simply a comedian and not a commentator or journalist. He is right on both counts. It is telling of the state of our news media that a comedian/satirist is better at articulating the shear stupidity and inconsistency of what […]

While the middleclass fight among themselves, Washington is one big family behind closed doors that maintain incestuous relationships devoid of party loyalties. It is for this reason that we should never have a loyalty to party but to policy. At this point in time the Democratic Party’s policies are in the best interest of the […]

Van Jones hits it on the nail. If Progressives want progressive policies effected which is implicitly the desire of most Americans, then they must force the President to do it out of fair of the base. Sadly if our base does not vote, then he has no incentive to placate the base but to attempt […]

I will  be honest. I have always believed that Shock and Awe, Waterboarding, and many other directives ordered or approved by President Bush made him a war criminal. If he was not President of the United States, the most powerful country in the world, he would have been tried at the Hague. Sadly, I never […]