Foreign policy realism

Posted by | 12:21 PM
If you're a liberal, and if you read this editorial by Robert Kagan in the Washington Post , and you're pissed off, I feel your pain...

Weekly Roundup (Yee-haw!)

Posted by | 4:19 PM
Some stories of interest from this beautiful blue planet of ours: 1. Clouds over Palestine It's nice to see a Palestinian leader who act...

Liberals and Christians

Posted by | 1:38 PM
For decades now, the role of Christianity in American politics has been clear and unambiguous. Driven by fury at America's cultural deca...

Bush gets smart...too late!

Posted by | 4:05 PM
I grew up in a small conservative town in Texas. For 18 years, I learned firsthand the kind of thought process that drives the decisions of ...

The Bear and the Alien Probe

Posted by | 12:53 AM
I very clearly remember a story I read in 8th grade. It was a science fiction story, an old one, about an alien probe that comes to Earth to...

Immigration: "truths" and fictions

Posted by | 2:32 PM
Some fishy logic on immigration today from the Washington Post's Robert Samuelson. According to him, none of the many sides in the pres...

The First Law of Petropolitics, Reconsidered

Posted by | 2:55 PM
Thomas Friedman, SuperJournalist Extrordinaire, has ventured out of the realm of news reporting and into the field of political science with...

Blog of Doom

Posted by | 12:11 PM
Very few things have the capacity to scare me, especially on a lovely Los Angeles morning. But there is one thing that will always send an A...

Faith alone

Posted by | 11:29 AM
For the moment at least, the Republicans are floundering, and this is a good thing. Just look at the results of this New York Times/CBS News...

Blogging about bloggers who blog about other bloggers

Posted by | 5:33 PM
One of the longest-running and nastiest feuds in the blogosphere (don't you love saying that word?) has got to be the rancor between The...

The Voice of Unreason

Posted by | 12:24 PM
I have so many things to say about this Washington Post editorial by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga (Kos of the Daily Kos ) that I almost don'...