Hard to believe it’s already been four months since three Republican candidates declared they don’t believe in evolution and instantly took themselves out of the running as far as I’m concerned. Brownback, Tancredo, and Huckabee. I don’t know what startled me more, their admission or my shock. I’d always thought I was a reasonable, open-minded person, willing to … Continue reading Election ’08: Does religion matter?
Yesterday a U.S. judge declared that the National Security Administration’s (NSA) warrantless domestic eavesdropping and surveillance is unconstitutional. Quick to defend his administration’s position, President Bush today declared, “Those who herald this decision simply do not understand the nature of the world in which we live.” Okay, Mr. Bush, I’ll bite. I’m elated over the … Continue reading Bush and his wiretaps: one of us doesn’t get it
At last week’s G-8 Summit in Europe, video cameras caught our very own President Bush giving German Chancellor Angela Merkel an unexpected, uninvited back rub as he passed behind her. Where I come from, a move like that in public by any man toward any woman constitutes sexual harassment. A gentleman never, ever lays a … Continue reading Frat boy Bush makes move at G-8
It wasn’t enough that Dan Rather embarrassed himself, his network, and his profession a while back with that George Bush National Guard fiasco. Now he’s howling that CBS wasn’t living up to its contract agreement about his assignments and, in a huff of indignation, has quit. Apparently his arrogance has blinded him to any notion … Continue reading Rather embarrassing… again
President Bush has just approved a huge new marine sanctuary in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, an area said to be approximately 100 times the size of Yellowstone National Park. Question: How concerned will he be about protecting the area if someone discovers oil there? Or maybe he approved it because Halliburton has already determined there … Continue reading About that new marine sanctuary…
President Bush just finished addressing the nation from the Oval Office, having been driven to it by the current cacophony over illegal immigration into the U.S. He didn’t say much of anything new, repeating his old and well-known position on enforcement and a guest worker program, and a comprehensive bill including both. He started by … Continue reading Bush talks about illegal immigration
