Of all the public policy issues debated in this country, [tag]abortion[/tag] is by far the trickiest. There’s just not much room for compromise. If you believe a fertilized egg is a full-fledged human being with all the rights therein, abortion is murder. If you don’t, a government-imposed ban on the procedure takes away a woman’s […]
Stop me if you heard this one … top intelligence officials told the White House before the war that [tag]Iraq[/tag] had no [tag]WMD[/tag], but [tag]Bush[/tag] officials ignored the warnings, cherry picked the information it wanted to believe, and blew off anyone who disagreed. It’s a story we’ve heard so many times, it does, after a […]
Last fall, a [tag]CIA[/tag] official leaked word to the Washington Post about the government hiding and interrogating al Qaeda captives in Soviet-era [tag]secret prisons[/tag] in Eastern Europe. In effect, to avoid breaking our laws, U.S. intelligence officials have been holding detainees overseas, and breaking other countries’ laws. The story touched off a furious internal investigation […]
If a head of state is at an event, and a protestor starts screaming, I understand escorting that person from the premises. If a head of state is at an event, and a journalist asks him or her a question, having government agents whisk him away is far more troubling. President [tag]Hu[/tag] can’t suppress dissent […]
First up from the God machine this week is a story about a website about TV preacher [tag]Jerry Falwell[/tag] and a website that isn’t going anywhere, despite his best efforts. Evangelist Jerry Falwell on Monday lost a Supreme Court appeal of a case that sought to shut down a Web site with a similar name […]
Guest Post by Morbo Among the flurry of resignations from the White House this week, I would not want one to get lost in the shuffle and go unnoticed: James Towey is leaving — and it’s high time. Towey ran the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Under his watch, the “faith-based” approach, […]
Guest Post by Morbo Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue has signed into law what is believed to be the most punitive anti-illegal immigration law in the country. Rallies, both pro and con, were held at the state capitol just before Perdue inked the bill. The Associated Press reported that at one of them, state Rep. Melvin […]
Guest Post by Morbo Here’s an idea: Let’s take a wooded area in the [tag]suburbs[/tag], flatten it to stick up garish [tag]McMansions[/tag], and then complain because the animals we displaced won’t leave. This seems to be the thinking of some people in Rockville, Md., who are appalled because (gasp) coyotes have been seen in their […]
There have been volumes of blog posts, op-ed columns, and news items of late about [tag]John McCain[/tag]’s efforts to impress the Republicans’ far-right base, but I’ve been wondering: are we the only ones who’ve noticed? By that I mean, political observers have no doubt watched with some interest as [tag]McCain[/tag] has cozied up to [tag]Jerry […]
It was almost as if the Bush [tag]White House[/tag] wanted to offend Chinese President [tag]Hu Jintao[/tag] (via Atrios). Chinese President Hu Jintao got almost everything he wanted out of yesterday’s visit to the White House. […] If only the White House hadn’t given press credentials to a Falun Gong activist who five years ago heckled […]