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Saturday, February 17, 2007

Just When You Thought God Had Stopped Talking To Dubya About Iraq...

"I've listened to a lot of voices. People in my administration heard a lot of voices. We weighed every option. I concluded that to step back from the fight in Baghdad would have disastrous consequences for people in America." -- president George W. Bush, press conference, Feb. 14, 2007 Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, February 12, 2007

For Those Pessimists Who Look At History As Doomladen Foreshadowing

"Would that more people viewed history as a source of creative inspiration and accumulative successes than a timeline of errors that need creative revising or immediate corrective measures." -- Saul Relative Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, January 22, 2007

The Ability To Question And The Politics Of Moral Exclusion

"A circle is not self-refuting; it is self-perpetuating. And beware the man who discovers a straight line." -- Andrew Sullivan, The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It; How To Get It Back Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Dick Cheney Merely A Peter Principle Puppeteer?

"As Bush proceeds with his second term, we have had some six years to observe him. It is abundantly clear that he is a mental lightweight with a strong right-wing authoritarian personality, with some social dominance tendencies as well. Bush's leading authorities are "his gut," his God, and his... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, January 14, 2007

The Legacy Of Tom DeLay And Rick Santorum And The K Street Project

"The Cato Institute's David Boaz reports that the number of registered lobbying firms jumped from 1701 to 2060 in the last six years; over the same period, lobbyist spending went up 50 percent, and the number of companies with lobbyists rose 58 percent. The number of lobbyists in the nation's... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Senator Chuck Hagel For President

“I am opposed to the escalation of American involvement in Iraq, including more U.S. troops. This is a dangerously wrong-headed strategy that will drive America deeper into an unwinnable swamp at a great cost. It is wrong to place American troops into the middle of Iraq’s civil war. It is not in... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, January 7, 2007

Why You See So Many Red States And Not So Many Blue States

"In American politics, who controls the states controls the nation. The right understands this, and for a generation has waged an unrelenting war to take over state government in America. It has succeeded, in large part because it hasn't faced any serious progressive counter effort." -- Joel Rogers,... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Why We Allow Military Simpletons Like Bush To Lead Our Military

"The mass needs, and we give it, leaders who have the firmness and decision of command proceeding from habit and an entire faith in their unquestionable right to command as established by tradition, law, and society." -- Ardant du Picq, Battle Studies Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

The Casualty Of War Rarely Given Mention

"Nations customarily measure the "costs of war" in dollars, lost production, or the number of soldiers killed or wounded. Rarely do military establishments attempt to measure the costs of war in terms of individual human suffering. Psychiatric breakdown remains one of the most costly items of war... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Should We Study The Murderer, The Killer, The Slayer?

"Why should we study killing? One might just as readily ask, Why study sex? The two questions have much in common. Richard Heckler points out that "it is in the mythological marriage of Ares and Aphrodite that Harmonia is born." Peace will not come until we have mastered sex and war, and to master... Sign in to see full entry.

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