Escapades?

The Governor Mark Sanford situation is interesting from several perspectives.  First, here is a guy who, to the casual observer, had it all.  A position of political prominence, took his family to China,  Hong Kong, Macao and other exotic places, had been a member of Congress. Father of four young sons.  Husband for at least [...]

Will the Guv Resign

South Carolina governor Mark Sanford has a little over a year left on his second term.  He is prohibited by law from running for a third term.  A run for the Republican candidacy for president is clearly out of the question. After the Republican dominated state legislature over-rode ten of his vetoes at the end [...]

Basiji

Is the Basiji analogous to Hitler’s Brown Shirts?

South Asia

If the United States is to be a part of the solution to the violence and terror in south Asia, there must be a coming together of large groups committed to solving the problem. The United Nations, NATO and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization must work together to ameliorate the conditions causing the problems.  I am [...]

Iran

In Robin Wright’s Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East, she devotes a chapter to each of the countries in the region.  Chapter 7 begins Iran The Revolutionaries Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, more even than death. . . .  Thought looks into the [...]

True Story

Short, but true. I am related to this young man by marriage. I get the story second hand and will not probe for details. I have seen combat and am sensitive enough not to ask any questions. He was a U.S. Marine. He was riding in a Humvee in Iraq.  He bent over to pick [...]

Mad

Yeah, I’m mad.  Pissed might better state how I feel.  I recently received a lukewarm, at best, or dismissive, at most, response from my Democrat Senator from Ohio, Mr. Sherrod Brown. I had noticed this post by digby and I followed the link to a WebMD post from almost two years ago. I sent the [...]

Double-Standard AND A Hypocrite

RawStory has this up Nevada Republican Senator John Ensign, considered a possible contender for the GOP’s presidential ticket in 2012, has confessed to an extramarital affair. I may not think the Dem senator from Nevada, Majority Leader Harry Reid,  is a strong leader, but he’s faithful to his wife. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said at [...]

GOP Refuses to Fund War Spending Bill

Voting against the International Monetary Fund is more important than supporting what Republicans have been telling us is the highest, most untouchable priority in all of American public life.

Effective Governing

I don’t even think there is a need to link to this.  The stories are legion and widespread about the U.S. government’s inept response to Hurricane Katrina: From Wiki The storm weakened before making its second landfall as a Category 3 storm on the morning of Monday, August 29 in southeast Louisiana. It caused severe destruction [...]