Anyone who has been reading leftfielder for awhile knows that one of our favorite topics is media bias. It seems that increasingly often, Americans are choosing their news sources not by their quality but by their bias. Conservatives subscribe to the Weekly Standard and the Wall Street Journal and watch FOX News. [...]

In an interesting tidbit, a friend of mine recently tipped me off to the fact that the House Majority Leader is Tom Delay, the House Majority Whip is Roy Blunt and one of the House Majority Deputy Whips is John Doolittle .
So, the republican leadership can be summed up as delay, blunt, [...]

House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R-TX) was indicted in Texas yesterday on conspiracy charges. Texas law forbids corporate campaign donations. According to the Travis County (which includes Austin) District Attorney Ronnie Earle, Delay and two other men conspired to funnel corporate funds to Texas lawmakers through the Republican National Committee during the 2002 [...]

President Bush has finally decided that Americans need to start conserving energy. Better late than never, I suppose. However, assuming that the president is really serious about conservation, he needs to increase the federal gasoline tax by two or three dollars. I would recommend phasing it in over the next few years; [...]

The biggest problem with the “evolution debate” can best be described with reference to the following statement made in the New York Times this morning: “Evolution finds that life evolved over billions of years through the processes of mutation and natural selection, without the need for supernatural interventions.” The first part of this statement [...]

So much of what we read about in the news and talk about on this blog is negative, so its a nice change of pace when I can talk about something good. This morning I was quite pleased to read that the Irish Republican Army has completed disarmament. The IRA hasn’t received [...]

On the eve of yet another Category 4 hurricane making landfall in the Bible belt, I think it appropriate to reiterate one of my favorite modern-day parables:
A police officer pulled up in front of the house of a man who was sitting on his porch, reading his Bible. The officer says to the man [...]

As Hurricane Rita’s trajectory shifted so that it looks like Houston may be spared a direct hit , authorities have noted the traffic congestion and are recommending that residents who have not already left the city stay put. (Its better to weather the storm in a house than in a car, and there [...]

The absurdity of Republican fiscal policies knows no bounds. We have high deficits already; deficits that are threating to drive up inflation and interest rates which would kill the next economic boom before it even happens. Deficits that the Republican party and their tax-cut mantra are responsible for. And now, thanks to [...]

Leadership starts at the top. Perhaps no other bureaucracy in the world can match the United States Department of Defense. There are are extensive, clearly defined chains of command, and every member of that chain knows exactly who to take orders from, when, and how. And yet when wars go badly or when the tactical [...]