Author: Cogitator

One word–my made-up one at that–best describes the two ‘debates’ so far featuring the Republican presidential hopefuls: pander-monium. And on good authority expect that the ghost of Ronald Reagan will...

It’s the end of my Karl Rove posting week and none too soon! Let me get this out of the way: I would feel exactly the same revulsion towards KR if he was a Democratic strategist, period. There’s hardball and then...

It’s all partisan pre-calculated politics with Karl Rove and George Bush. Every moment of every single day. To such a degree, they probably wipes their asses with only their left hands.Everything that can be micro-managed...

Reuters/Brussels, Belgium – The United States will reject any request by Italy to extradite CIA agents for the first criminal trial over controversial U.S. “renditions” of terror suspects, a U.S. government...

Patronage has existed as long as government. The two go hand in hand. Sometimes, the worst is rooted out by the media but usually only after an appointee demonstrates utter incompetency (see Michael Brown/FEMA) or commits...