While the War on Whatever continues in the spotlight, let’s take a moment to remember the War on Drugs and see how it’s going. Rather than criticize how it affects us locally, we’ll take a look at Colombia. BBC News ran a very brief article stating, “The Colombian anti-narcotics police have announced that a record …
Okay, so the first batch of emails has been sent. I’m working on a position paper this weekend. If you haven’t gotten in on the new hotness for the Democratic Party and you’re interested, let me know. There may be a DTM off-shoot blog coming with some region specific information about mid-term elections. The biggest …
I am pleased the Sox won Game 1. It is entirely possible we shouldn’t have, but we did. Manny is lucky he didn’t snap his leg off at the knee when his cleat caught, but the important thing is that we’re 1/4th of the way done. Now that baseball is taken care of, I should …
In August I told you that Iran was sending weapons to Iraqi insurgents. This is pretty scary on its own. Later on that month, I waxed wordy on Iran’s claim to the right to pre-emptively strike US forces in the Middle East if anyone rolled up on them, and especially if anyone threatened their nuclear …
1) Cowboymonkey sent me a link, and thanks to him, you can all see what a totally fabricated news story looks like. Okay, so maybe it isn’t totally fabricated, but I’m certain there was some heavy editing going on here with these quotes. Only I talked like that when I was that age and I …
Early in last night’s debate you downplayed American costs and casualties for political gain by arguing that Iraqis are incurring losses as well. How dare you, sir. Your lack of reverence for the sacrifices of those participating in what you have wrought is inexcusable. We all know the Iraqis are helping. Or at least the …
So, its Sunday morning (even though it is quite early) and the media has made their official declaration of Thursday’s debate winner: John Kerry. We figured it would take about this long for someone to be annointed and lo, it did. As I write this, Fox News of all channels is breaking the story from …