There are rumors that the U.S. has told the Iraqi PM that he has a very short time--two months--to get the nightmare at least started in the right direction and, at the same time, was allegedly searching for a new "strong man" to pull the militias into line and assert the power of central government over Iraq's catatonic insecurity.

Make no mistake, the Republican Party is polluted. I have found that out locally here in Bradley County. It's obvious to me that both the Republicans and the leaders of the Religious Right are contemptuous of rank and file conservative Christians, not each other. By forming a new party we cast a new direction united and committed to do the work together. I fear the Mark Foley scandal is only a small part of the problem.

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."

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