Remember when George W. Bush teamed up with Ted Kennedy to leave no child behind? Of course they made it mandatory that schools receiving federal money turn over all sorts of personal information about the kiddos to the warfare state. Well, Mothers Against the Draft...

From the president's Tuesday night address:We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves.Yes, great Americans like young Republican Collin Kelley:Kelley told me he's "sick and tired of people saying...

While the focus has been mostly on Iraq, with the tragic loss of a second helicopter in Afghanistan and the year barely half over, we have already exceeded the casualty count for the entire previous year of 2004. In fact, it's the highest death toll of any year in...

How many lies can this President cram into a single speech? That question may have been answered tonight. 9/11 was invoked at least 5 times as a jusification for the invasion and conquest of Iraq. But we now know -- some of us always knew -- that Iraq had nothing to...

Here are a couple of must read posts by Billmon on the Bush speech in front of a captive military audience last night:Last night, by contrast, seemed about as enjoyable as a root canal for all parties concerned. When the only way you can get a hand from a handpicked...

I'm beginning to think maybe God is watching over America. We are blessed with leaders -- well, mainly one leader -- so clueless, or perhaps so challenged in various ways that he can't bring himself to do what he needs to do to save his unwise policies from rejection...

It seems to me that in order to be successful in his attempt tonight to reverse the course of public opinion on the Iraq war that President Bush will have to do something that is likely to be very difficult for him personally: acknowledge that the war is not going as...

From a good read in today's New York Times by John Tierney:The Crow Indians rode with Custer at Little Bighorn, but they have since reconsidered. On the anniversary of the battle Saturday, they cheered during a re-enactment when Indians drove a stake through his...

So Dubya's giving a prime-time address tomorrow, and from all indications, he won't be saying anything new. Rah-rah troops, yay democracy, boo terrorists, stay the course – we all know it like the Pledge of Allegiance by now. One should never underestimate the mind of...

Gee, I'm so glad that we sacrificed 1,700-plus dead, thousands more horribly wounded, and hundreds of billions of dollars -- for this: "Physicians have been beaten for treating female patients. Liquor salesmen have been killed. Even barbers have faced threats for...