Character, wisdom, experience, judgment, these are all issues that Barack Obama is going to have to assure the Democratic primary voters about -- and, if he manages to halt the inevitability that is Hillary Clinton -- the American public at large. He may not survive such scrutiny if author Bruce Bawer -- who describes himself […]
Huckabee's problem has gotten worse, with this bit from a report on the case in The Los Angeles Times: Huckabee said the DuMond case was already "on my desk" when he became governor in July 1996. He announced that he was considering a commutation. Later, he acknowledged, he wrote a letter to the prisoner saying […]
One of the benefits of rainy days and a week long vacation is the opportunity to do some reading. I just finished Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" and must say I thoroughly enjoyed it. I've read a couple of Stephenson's other books, including "Cryptonomicon" and the first book of his behemoth Baroque Cycle, and must say […]
Actor Sean Penn has endorsed flying-saucer boy. On a somewhat related note, the story notes Penn's next film will be "Milk," -- not the kind that does a body good. Penn is slated to star in the Gus Van Sant movie "Milk," the biography of the San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk who, along with Mayor […]
Ross McKitrick has an op-ed piece in Canada's National Post on a serious problem with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest report. In the first draft of the IPCC report, they simply claimed that, while city data are distorted by urban warming, this does not affect the global averages. They cited two familiar studies […]
Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has a problem. The problem has a name. The name is Wayne Dumond. Dumond was a convicted rapist and Arkansas resident who had a bad thing happen to him -- before his trial he was released on bond. Two masked men broke into his home and castrated him. He was later […]
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Boumediene v. Bush -- something that it shouldn't be doing in the first place. The case presents the court with the question of whether terrorists captured on foreign battlefields and held in foreign lands have the right to challenge their detention in U.S. courts. This […]
John Hawkins over at Right Wing News has compiled his Top 10 Daily Kos quotes for 2007. It's a strong showing, but I have faith that some creative Kossack can come up with something more odious in the final month of the year. If you follow the link, you've been given fair warning. These people […]
Christianity cannot be the basis for governing a nation. Unlike Islam, which has a model for law known as sharia, Christianity is based on having a personal relationship between the believer and God. Jesus didn't say anything about how to run a town, a city or an empire. It's one of the points Gregory Boyd […]
I use PCs at home. I use a Mac and PC at work. I've been saying for the better part of a decade that the computer is a tool, the operating system it uses is of little consequence. Having said all that -- I've reached the tipping point on those Mac vs. PC television commercials. […]