Presidents can be presidential, pretendential, or just p....

Some president's make grand statements that history prove to have been prescient.  Some make grand statements that fade rapidly from memory because the grandness is thinly wrapped around a vacuum.  Others make....statements.

Sorry, Yahoo, Our Bad!

Seems web engine Yahoo took a beating in the stocks....

Coulter defender gets it part right

The Editor & Publisher site has several letters defending Ann Coulter's latest loony comments and attempt at Coulter-humor.

So long Ralphie...

Ralph Reed has conceded defeat in his Republican primary race to become the party's candidate for lieutenant governor in Georgia.

"our spiritual heritage...cries out for our country to honor God"

I'm not going to waste a lot of time on this nonsense, but the fact is that the House today passed a bill that would deprive federal courts of the right to adjudicate the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance.

At least he's consistent--Bush vetoes stem cell legislation

President Bush today vetoed the legislation to widen research on stem cells,  a move many are reporting as a notable event simply because Bush hasn't vetoed anything before.  He may not have exercised his veto before, but his action today is anything but new.  It's perfectly consistent with his personal dislike of science, his personal desire to keep the Christian right happy, and his attempt to appear principled among the ruins of the least principled administration of my lifetime.

Give victory a chance!! No, uh, lets start to pull out

Politics sure is weird, isn't it?  Passionate speeches on the floor, asking everybody and their brother for money, smiling all the time (unless you're one of the "attack dog" office holders), reading polls, taking polls, reading polls, taking polls....changing your passionate position.

Bush killed DOJ security clearances, and investigation, of spy program

The Washington Post is carrying an AP story that Alberto Gonzalez has told Arlen Specter's Committee that it was George Bush himself who prevented the DOJ's Office of Preofessional Responsibility (OPR) from continuing their investigation into what role DOJ lawyers might have played in played in the domestic eavesdropping program.

Christians, Jews & Muslims all agree: gay is not Okay

Unity at last according to the AP: Faiths in Jerusalem United Over Gay March.

Mental Health, Military Style

There have been plenty of stories about U.S. troops suffering psychological problems in Iraq, which puts public pressure on the military to either do something about it, claim they are doing something about it, or be so confusing that no one knows what they're doing about it.