Well, that was interesting. While I was flying home for the holidays today, the Senate decided to actually get stuff done and, you know, be productive. When you think about peace on Earth, “good will toward men”, and so on this holiday season, you just gained another reason to believe in the possibility of those…
By now, I’m sure you’ve heard of Cablegate, the release of some 250,000 United States diplomatic cables to the whole world via the internet. Just like the Afghanistan and Iraq War Logs, various newspapers got early access to them, and are slowly reporting what they find; of course, the rest of the media is picking…
As I mentioned in the announcement right before this post, there’ll be many changes coming in the next several days. I hope to make the process as seamless as possible, but I also like getting down and dirty with the code and also somehow doing things the hard way. Anyway, this is most likely the…
When will it end? The Transportation Security Administration, the organization that mans the airport security checkpoints, appears to be just throwing new regulations and procedures at us, the American public, with the usual national security excuse. Seriously, the conduct that the TSA now considers Standard Operating Procedure is so offensive, it was difficult to think…
Just about halfway into President Obama’s term, and we’ve had one of the most lopsided elections in American history- all based on misconceptions about what has or hasn’t been accomplished. The media, politicians, their parties, and blogs far less sane than the one you’re currently reading, have spun a lot of things and just not…
For what it’s worth, the Republicans don’t seem to be in favor of much of anything these days that actually makes sense. On the one hand, I can understand their fixation on reducing the deficit; that is something this country needs to tackle before it gets much worse. Then they say they are in favor…
By now, I’m sure you’ve heard of the Cordoba House, the name of the proposed mosque and community center near Ground Zero. What began as a simple local zoning matter became the latest flash point in our post-9/11 society almost overnight. What’s striking to me isn’t the fact that some religious organization wants to build…
Well here we go: as Congress goes to its month-long August recess, we have a full slate of primaries and other developments in the midterm election races to keep us engaged in politics. This Tuesday, the August primaries began in earnest with three states choosing their general election matches. Now, I could just give you…
If Afghanistan is our generation’s Vietnam, this is our generation’s Pentagon Papers; oh wait, just about every political observer out there has called it that already. Anyway, if you haven’t heard about it yet, the website Wikileaks.org is causing quite a stir in government circles this summer. Most notably, the organization became notorious due to…
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