The battle of Basra is becoming more intense. Basically, the Maliki government is using the Badr Corps militia against the Al Sadr Mahdi army. Two Shia militias fighting it out. The Badr corps is probably the least anti American militia in Iraq.
In my opinion, from watching the news for the last five […]

Ever wonder why nucular proliferation is such a low priority of Bushco?  Maybe it’s because they can’t keep track of our own stuff, no less anyone else’s.  Let’s see, fuses sent “in error” to Taiwan, 5 lost nuke missles last year.  What’s next, an inadvertent detonation in Times Square, or downtown SF?  Oops!

Given that the Republican Party intended to exploit 9/11 to reelect Bush in 2004, it made perverse sense for them to hold their national convention as close to September 11 as they could, and in New York City at that. No convention had ever been held so late—from their beginnings in the 19th century, the […]

Doing the San Fran/Mendocino/Monterrey vacation thing with my family. San Francisco is EXCELLENT and Mendicino is EXCELLENT and Monterrey? Still to come.
California NPR talk hosts are sick of Obama and HATE The Hillary, but what’s not to hate?
In any case, for those four of you who link, here’s War? plus links, here’s High-Mindedness (w/pictures from […]

Once we had a President who told us that, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Now we have one campaign that echoes that message of hope, while the other plays on our fears, trying to persuade us that we need an all-powerful Mommy to take care of us.
The sad thing […]

If, if John McCain picks a running mate that is moderate and doesn’t come from the Religious Right, then he will be very tough to beat no matter who the candidate is. With the exception of Bush Lite, most presidents tend to rise to a higher calling once they get elected. They campaign one way but […]

Cruising the net I found this. It is not just the war in Iraq that is costing so much money, it is all these incredible weapon systems that we just have to build. The thing is, I really cannot see the reason for a new class of Virginia attack submarines, when our Los […]

The Clintons are smart, but they are running out of cards to play. They saw that the incendiary sentences from Jeremiah Wright were about patriotism, in the white sense, not about race, in the white sense. So they played the patriotism card, just as Rove played it against Vietnam vet and triple amputee, Max Clelland […]

Some of the Awakening councils in Iraq are going on strike.  These are the Sunni groups who have entered into a temporary alliance with the US.  And believe me, these guerrillas have been saying that all along.  They have been stressing that they wish to destroy the Iraqi Shia government, and that they will return […]

It turns out that McBush has a church problem. The NYT in its magazine this Easter Sunday will out the fact that McCain sought the endorsement of Catholic-hater Hagee who said, among other things, that Katrina was god’s way of punishing New Orleans for its sinful ways. McCain has described this as Hagee coming to […]