A Victory for Common Sense and Humanity

For over two decades, HIV-infected persons have been banned from coming into the United States for either travel or immigration purposes. Today, Pres. Obama announced the end of that ban:

History / Poly Sci Majors

Those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Anonymous From Matt Hoh’s resignation letter: Our support for this kind of government, coupled with a misunderstanding of the insurgency’s true nature, reminds me horrible of our involvement with South Vietnam; an unpopular and corrupt government we backed at the expense of our [...]

The Soullessness of Sen. Joseph Lieberman

There is an explosion of blogger reaction to Lieberman’s announcement today that he is willing to sink health care reform over the public option.

Health Care

What I am hearing on MSNBC and what I am reading is The ‘public option’ will take effect in 2013 If  your employer provides health insurance you will not be eligible for the public option Only about 10 – 30 million people in the country will be eligible for the public option

Have a Heart? Not These Folks.

This must be where that myth about heartless Republicans comes from:

Time

I found this nugget in a post by digby With Dick Cheney out there shamelessly accusing the president of “dithering” after having punted for eight years, caring nothing about Afghanistan, ignoring Pakistan even to the extent that they didn’t even bother to find people knowledgeable of the region to staff their embassies. First, they couldn’t [...]

Hypocrites – Part 5

There is a group of people in this country who claim to be “pro life.”  They say they are against abortion and that any and all abortions are murder.  Most, but not all, of these “pro life” people are Republicans and/or conservatives. And, if they were consistently against killing, well, I wouldn’t be writing this. [...]

Pieces

And what is paradox ranting about?  What ?  Have you been pulling a Rip Van Winkle ?? Big pieces or little pieces, there is a lot of broken stuff out there. New Orleans.  Katrina.  When is somebody going to lead to fix New Orleans.  No hospital, schools still closed. Jobs.  Jobs moving overseas.  It began [...]

Thought of the Day

There is no substitute for excellence — not even success. Anon

Unknown To The American Public

There was an election in Japan on 30 August 2009 in which there was a huge upset.  Read the Wiki entry on current Japanese politics, then read a more current Wall Street Journal article. So far, nothing is surprising.  A new government wants to make changes to existing conditions in order to satisfy campaign promises. [...]