Author: smintheus

A few months ago I proposed a plan to place Republican Congressional war hawks on the defensive politically and force them to take positive steps to fix the real problems in Iraq. The plan was, I thought, brilliant in its...

Oh this new report from the Center for Public Integrity should be required reading. It tracks the privately sponsored trips that members of Congress and their aides have made during the Bush administration. This is the kind of...

I’ve taken a mind today to compare how our first and our last President respond to the concerns of their religiously minded supporters. In 1790, while visiting Newport, the new President received a letter bearing good...

George Bush announced yesterday that he is nominating David H. Laufman to be Inspector General of the Department of Defense. It is a major job even in small times, and for the DoD these are colossal times. So who is this man?...

Decoration Day, begun as an occasion to honor our war dead, also became a way to heal a deeply divided nation. Today the U.S. is riven by animosities once again, courtesy of George Bush’s duplicitous and divisive policies....