Category: Politics & World Affairs
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For the second year in a row the American Cancer Society has reported a decline in the number of deaths due to cancer. 2003 was the first year on record for which an overall decrease in cancer death was reported. The data for 2004 is similarly positive and it may bode well for the future.…
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Here are two brazen statements made by high profile public figures which illustrate that to become a successful right winger, one must eschew all sense of shame. Last Sunday on 60 Minutes (CBS), George W. Bush was interviewed by Scott Pelley. Here is one exchange that provides a glimpse into Bush’s unrepentant heart and arrogant…
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I am sure most of you watched (or read about) George W. Bush’s fantasy filled speech on January 10, 2007 in which he once again tried to sell us a bill of dangerous goods in the name of national security. After perfunctorily taking responsibility for mistakes in Iraq (a bitter pill for an arrogant man),…
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While Congressman Virgil Goode of Virginia is at it again, denigrating Congressman-elect Keith Ellison of Minnesota for wanting to take a ceremonial oath on the Koran, rather than a Bible, Mr.Ellison has managed to come up with a hard-to-assail reply: He is going to be taking his oath on a translation of the Koran once…
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By now we have all watched the macabre theater surrounding the execution of Saddam Hussein. The spectacle resembled a nauseating and well choreographed snuff film which played out endlessly on our TV screens in strange juxtaposition with the dignified and somber farewell to President Gerald Ford. Few in the world, especially Iraqis, are shedding tears…
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Well, John Edwards has declared. Big surprise, right? And I’m sure we’ll all be shocked when Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and maybe Al Gore do the same. I’m no election politics expert, but it seems to me that Edwards is ready to run a strong campaign. He declared in damaged-but-not-destroyed working-class neighborhood in New Orleans…
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Just when I think that the Holiday goings-on at the White House couldn’t present a more revolting contrast to the carnage in Iraq, I come across this : Bad enough that the First Lady was wearing something that looked like a Victorian sofa for the Christmas pics this year, but when 3 other ladies showed…
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He is bent but not broken. Disgraced but not ashamed. Gone but not vanished. Tom DeLay is back – this time as a blogger. I was really surprised to see his smiling face today on TV, pontificating on issues such as the war on terror, the Iraq war, and the Iraq Study Group, which he…
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The beautiful island paradise of Fiji has been racked with political and ethnic discord in recent years. Last week saw yet another coup in which the military overthrew the government, accusing it of rampant corruption. Although the international community did not approve, the Fijians themselves are quite unperturbed. Now the self installed Fijian military junta…
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Whatever I may think of presidential father George H.W. Bush’s politics, I always found the senior Bush’s ability and willingness to shed tears in public, rather endearing. I have seen him cry at least half a dozen times, mostly while talking about his family, including the tragic loss of a daughter to childhood leukemia .…
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Poor man! Soon after winning a seat in Congress, Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim member of the US House of Representatives was asked by a right wing blowhard to prove that he is not working with the enemy. Now he has raised the ire of conservative commentators Sean Hannity and Dennis Prager who fear…
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First Cindy Sheehan, then Dolores Kesterson and now Senator Elect Jim Webb of Virginia, whose campaign hinged largely on his opposition to the Iraq war. It seems that George Bush just doesn’t know how to treat parents whose children are fighting and dying in his wars, with the proper respect they deserve. During a meeting…
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It is interesting that I should come across this story right after I posted a comment on Prawfs Blawg where a discussion was under way as to whether the criticism of the Iraq war is in some ways responsible for its failure and if criticizing the war constitutes treason during war time. Although the majority of…
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One significant casualty (at least for now) of the disastrous and immoral Iraq war is the neo-conservative philosophy of shaping the world, particularly the middle east, through aggressive military invasions. With Bush-Cheney’s Iraq policy now thoroughly discredited and in shambles, their neo-con supporters are scrambling to distance themselves from this administration. But they also remind…
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