The One With Aldacron

We all know that political candidates’ positions on critical issues usually depend on whose votes they are trying to win. We want to believe that they are for or against something because of personal conviction, because it’s right or wrong. Sometimes that sort of candidate actually comes along. But we have been disappointed time and [...]

Remember all the vehement denials from the Bush administration when allegations first surfaced that they had tortured terrorism suspects? We’ve gone from that, to this. “Yeah, we water-boarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,” Bush said of the terrorist who master-minded the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. He said that event shaped his presidency [...]

The Obama administration has been working closely with Egypt to introduce a resolution to the UN Human Rights Council. The resolution is, apparently, an attempt to kowtow to Muslim countries. But it does so in a deplorable manner. The U.N. Human Rights Council approved a U.S.-backed resolution Friday deploring attacks on religions while insisting that [...]

Given that the Democrats currently control both houses of Congress as well as the White House, and that the Republicans are currently showing no desire to contribute anything meaningful to the health care debate but are instead dead set on preventing Obama from effectively governing, you’d think that the Democrats would ignore them and get [...]

In my last post, I talked about the level of stupidity in America among conservatives. Here’s some evidence of it on video. This comes from a town hall meeting held by Republican Congressman Mike Castle of Delaware, where a bunch of whacked out birthers got loud. We’re all in trouble if people like these, as [...]

The Obama birth certificate nonsense refuses to go away. This article at the ledger-enquirer discusses a lawsuit by an Army reservist that has now been joined by a retired two-star general and a reservist lt. colonel. You can read the article for the details, but it revolves around the myth that Obama is not a [...]

An uninformed public is its own worst enemy. The American public is grossly uninformed and our leaders know it. That’s what allowed eight years of Bush administration mismanagement. It also enabled the current financial crisis, the demonization of health care reform, the prevention of effective environmental legislation, and even the distortion of copyright law. Remember [...]

When the Patriot Act was first introduced, it had no shortage of vociferous opponents in the blogosphere. The primary concern was that the vast powers it granted federal authorities in rounding up terrorist suspects would be abused. With great power comes great responsibility, and history has shown that we can’t trust government to always be [...]

I’ve been pumped about Obama for some time now. Watching what he has achieved since taking office and learning the plans he has laid out for the future has been inspiring. But there’s a darker side to his presidency that isn’t getting the attention it deserves. Even if the mainstream media isn’t telling us about [...]