Unless you're younger that 16, have been in a coma, or think that the news is a back-up band for a guy named Huey Newton, you know that the current crop of Republicans has made semantics America's number one political game.

If these best-and-brightest did not know that their own motivations and behavior were racist and offensive, what does this tell us about how they have been educated; about how they have been prepared to be leaders in the world? Who failed them so abysmally in teaching them to live, work, and love in a world where most people do not look, think, talk, or act like them?

When we look at what has happened with same-sex marriage, as it began in this state and threatens to spread across the country, we've seen in its wake the loss of religious freedoms and the ability to speak out based upon one's moral convictions.

Is reality catching up to those con men and women who have an "(R)" after their name in Congress?

You know, today's NY Times has a piece by DAVID CAY JOHNSTON titled "Competitive Era Fails to Shrink Electric Bills."  Shocking, isn't it, especially since the fraud behind the privatization of public utilities has been articulated several times by several people.

recent Republicans keep tooting that "we're just plain folks, just like you" crap.  Take the Republican running to fill Bill Frist's Senate seat in Tennessee.

Washington's absolute and stunning obliviousness to the past, its lack of curiosity about the present, what Abbas Hilmi, in reference to the British occupation of Egypt eloquently described as "this dark abyss of incomprehension," is breathtaking. Policy is not made in a vacuum so much as in a stiff-necked straightjacket undermined by the administration's own shortcomings.

Imagine that. Seems the Chimpy Regime has no contingency plan in place if the Dems sweep the House...

Cliff Kincaid, God's gift to mental health professionals and the head of Accuracy in Media, has long been short on logic and/or basic honesty.  He's reached a new high in low thinking however, in a rambling column that is too vague to allow for certainty, but which seems to say that the gay Republicans (Foley, Kolbe, who knows who else) are really "closeted Democrats."

It's now been widely reported that David Kuo, formerly high up in the White House Office of Faith Based Initiatives, has written a book (to be published Monday) in which he accuses Rove and other Repub chieftains of calling the figures of the religious right "nuts" and other non-complimentary terms.

I don't say that the difficulties we are experiencing round the world are caused by our presence in Iraq, but undoubtedly our presence in Iraq exacerbates them.  I think history will show that the planning for what happened after the initial successful war fighting phase was poor, probably based more on optimism than sound planning.

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