By Mike
The Bush apologists are finally waking up to the fact that the war in Iraq is being mishandled. Last week came the critiques by Nixon’s old NSA Henry Kissinger and prominent Republican Senator Chuck Hagel. This past weekend, I observed a number of hard-core Bush supporters on weekend cable debate shows who were falling [...]

By Doc Opp
As reported by the AP, the city of New Orleans is being evacuated . Its astounding that a city of this size is threatened to the point that evacuation is necessary, and my heart goes out to the people in the path of the hurricane.
Obviously the entire situation is upsetting, but from a [...]

The Iraqi government is moving progressively closer towards a constitution. The compromises between the Kurdish and Shiite groups have allowed them to achieve a constitution that can pass cleanly through the Iraqi legislature. The next step, assuming that they can get the final wording out and have a full vote on the constitution this week, [...]

The Bible is unclear about a lot of things that Pat Robertson will claim divine authority on. The age of the Earth? You have to infer an awful lot from a wide variety of passages to get the 5000 year figure that is thrown around. End-times prophecy? Revelations, Daniel, and the rest, are full of [...]

From the 1930s until the 1980s, the Democrats were basically the majority party. Periodically, of course, they would lose control of either the House, the Senate, or the Presidency. But except for two years during the early part of the Eisenhower Presidency, they did not lose control of all three at the same time. And [...]

Drug use is a problem. I don’t need to run through the statistics or tell the stories of what drug addiction can do to people and to families. We’ve all seen enough sitcom “special episodes” as it is; I don’t need to rehash them. Let’s focus instead on public policy. Believe it or not, our [...]

It’s August, which means three things. First, it signifies that summer is past its apex, and fall is quickly approaching. Football, cooler weather, and school for the kids are all right around the corner. Second, it means my birthday is rapidly approaching. And third, it means that President Bush is on vacation. Every year, the [...]

In case you haven’t been counting, we are entering Day 10 of Cindy Sheehan’s vigil to meet with the President. To refresh your memory, Ms. Sheehan is the mother of a marine who was killed in Iraq. She has actually met with the President before; Mr. Bush has, on a number of occasions, met with [...]

Today’s big news, as I’m sure you have all heard by now, is that Israel is in the process of unilaterally dismantling its settlements inside the Gaza strip, functionally ceding all territory in Gaza to the Palestinian Authority. Prime Minister Sharon has been pushing for this for well over a year. Security was difficult and [...]

For the last two decades, the abortion debate in the United States has focused almost exclusively on issues of legality and direct regulation. The big debates have been about partial-birth abortion, parental consent laws, third-trimester abortions, waiting periods, Medicare coverage, etc. In other words, about how easy or difficult we want to make it for [...]