Posted in Uncategorized, Political on October 20th, 2006 4 Comments »
Okay, here’s my prediction. If I’m right, I’ll probably surprise a lot of people. If I’m wrong, I leave myself wide open for the I-told-you-sos. Anyhow, here it is.
The Democrats will win the mid-term elections, and lose it in 2008
Americans are so sick of the curent administration, including a congress riddled with […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Political on October 15th, 2006 3 Comments »
The United Nations, while not as utterly ineffectual as some pundits would have you believe, has some issues. The often insurmountable deadlocks in the Security Council due to the veto power of a huge communist, non-democratic nation like China undermines any pro-democratic process or resolution that could be adopted. Serious human rights violators […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Political on September 1st, 2006 2 Comments »
As you may already know, Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, a senior judge of a Federal Court in Michigan, recently ruled Pres. Bush’s “Secret Wiretapping Program” unconstitutional. YOu can read her opinion here and I highly recommend it. I’d like to take a moment to point out some of the specific criticisms of her […]
Sorry that this post is not very timely, considering this news came out July 6th, but I was moving and have not had a good internet connection in a while.
As you know, Plamegate is the scandal that Valerie Plame, an active CIA agent working in the field, was “outed” eight days after her husband criticised […]
Congress has recently expressed interest in approving a line item veto for the preident in appropriations bills. For those unfamiliar with the Line Item Veto, it means the president can go through each appropriations bill and decide which earmarks he likes or doesn’t like. He could then eliminate those he doesn’t like and […]