The Bush Administration today released a 35-page document entitled “The National Strategy for Victory in Iraq“. You can tune into any one of the news channels and hear endless analysis of the document and the accompanying speech, but two things jumped out at me. First, much of the document sounds like arguments for [...]

President Bush ran on an illegal immigration policy five years ago, and now that his ratings are in the mid-30s, he’s decided to bring it up again. So, here are the major proposals that will be debated over the next few weeks as Congress tries, once again, to do something about our immigration policy.

The airline industry is in trouble. That link is to Delta specifically, which is in the news at the moment, but most of the airlines aren’t doing so well (although there are some exceptions). Part of it is due to a spike in fuel prices. Part of it is due to increased [...]

Although my father is one of the world’s great technology buffs, there was one innovation my family never adopted. It was the “Christmas list.” All my friends had one, and I was frequently bitter about it. A Christmas list guaranteed you the top item on your list, and you were likely to [...]

The latest fad for those who want to justify “staying the course” in Iraq is to get the opinion of individual soldiers and officers. Yesterday I saw several recently returned Iraqi war vets giving their full-throated support of the idea that we are winning the war in Iraq, and that with time the Iraqi [...]

The Republican leadership was at it again today, cutting that wasteful spending from the Congressional budget. The were almost thwarted by moderates in their own party when late yesterday, the House of Representatives failed to pass a health care, education, and labor spending bill. That law would have cut spending from such wasteful [...]

“…it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war [the 2003 invasion of Iraq] began”
- President Bush’s Veteran’s Day Address at Tobyhanna Army Depot, Nov. 11, 2005
The Bush Administration has lately been hiding behind the resolution that explicitly authorized the use of force in Iraq, in order to accuse their political opponents [...]

I grew up in a church dedicated to bettering the lives of the people in a poor, minority part of south Minneapolis. Evangelism always, to me, meant living among the worldly, loving them, caring for them, and showing them by your words and (more importantly) your example what God’s love and power can do. [...]

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice brokered a deal today between Israel and Palestine. That is an important statement regardless of the details of the particular agreement that was brokered. In this case, the agreement has to do with the rights of Palestinians to come and go from Gaza now that Israeli troops have [...]

There has been a lot of discussion on leftfielder about what sorts of things are fair game when considering whether or not to confirm Alito to the Supreme Court. Most of this has dealt with the notion of judicial philosophy. The argument is that he should not be confirmed or rejected on the [...]