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After four years of delays, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has finally released its Phase II report. In a sweeping review of the administration’s pre-war case for invasion, the Committee found that the American public was being fed information at odds with the truth about Iraq.
The lies came directly from President Bush, [...]

Come one, come all pundits on this blog, to a penetrating quantitative analysis of Presidential greatness versus experience at–
http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Pres/Maps/Mar10.html
(scroll down to “Is an Experienced President a Good President?”)
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Conclusion: no correlation whatsoever!
My meditation:
According to this data, LBJ, with 27 years in the Congress, is the number two most experienced president and for my [...]

Recently, George Lakoff wrote a provocative post about The Words None Dare Say: Nuclear War. “What we are seeing now is the conservative message machine preparing the country to accept the idea of a nuclear war …against Iran.”
Of course, Iran has no nuclear weapons program. However, we have to consider that the Bush [...]

I wonder how a Bush Lover would hear this? Do they still think the heavy-handed unilateral approach to terrorism is the proper course? Are they really still so afraid they are willing to subvert the constitution and the rule of law?
It must feel like being betrayed by a lover who used and abused [...]

Sometimes reality gets so far ahead of satire, it’s impossible to catch up. In last night’s Florida GOP debate, Mike Huckabee compared Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction to an Easter egg hunt: “Everybody can look back and say, oh well we didn’t find the weapons. Doesn’t meet that they weren’t there. Just because you [...]

In last night’s Democratic presidential debate, the candidates were asked about a hypothetical act of nuclear terrorism by non-state actors and what they would do to prevent it. Nobody had a good answer. Such is politics.
However, I noticed the always-savvy Wired Danger Room blog did an even better than usual job of covering [...]

Sometimes, not often, I stop to reflect that I am now part of the “older generation” even though I’m fairly young by boomer standards. For example, when the AARP started mailing me application forms, or when people got excited about the so-called Global War on Terrorism (GWOT, pronounced “gee, what?”)
Back in 1998, CNN [...]

The United States of America has not selected or elected a senator to be president, in three decades. Now is the time. With the advent of Pakistan, a REAL threat: with hundreds of nuclear weapons and no real democratic tradition or, for that matter, democratic government, however onion-skin the garments of government, into [...]

President Bush can stop threatening everybody with World War III, at least in regard to Iran. The declassified key judgments (PDF) of the latest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) titled Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities concludes that “in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program… Tehran’s decision to halt its nuclear weapons program suggests [...]

I have spent most of my life looking the wrong way as I stepped off the curb. It’s one way to examine many oil pans on autos and buses. But there is a cost.
About a decade ago, as I traveled through Kashmir, situated between a nuclear India and a nuclear Pakistan, [...]

A 52 percent majority of Americans want to bomb Iran and 53 percent think that President Bush is going to do it, according to a new Zogby poll. Just 29 percent of Americans think the US should not attack Iran. Never mind that Iran poses no threat to our national security unless we [...]