Bush is not responsible for the war in Iraq. Al Gore said during his campaign against Bush II that Bush I should have finished the job; and we never tire of pretending these days that the Clinton-Gore government was not attacking Iraq…. they were, regularly and lethally. War is inherent to civilization; and that is [...]

Reposted from Fire on the Mountain I just watched the new MoveCongress.org video of John Murtha explaining his legislative strategy to end the occupation of Iraq, which seems to contain some interesting hidden booby traps for the Bush administration. There is, unfortunately, another concealed agenda item in his plan—providing cover for Democrats who are under [...]

With the Republican Party on the political ropes, so to speak, about the war, and the Democrats increasingly under siege from their left on the issue of cutting war funds, it’s been hard to keep pace with developments the last few days. In between just doing life-stuff, I think I try harder than most to [...]

The net energy value of biodiesel and ethanol is very hotly debated. There are many net energy studies of biofuels, particularly ethanol, which give a wide range of values. The main problem is that net energy studies are easily influenced by biases. The researcher must choose the energy inputs and outputs and the values to [...]

Between the hyperventilated coverage of Anna Nicole’s autopsy today, a peculiar news story squeezed in as filler. YouTube is posting videos, taken with cell phones by students, of teachers in public school classrooms having violent, abusive outbursts. I saw this on MSNBC while I was dusting blinds, and it stopped me in my tracks. The [...]

The 2007 war budget — which many Democrats will undoubtedly approve and allow to happen — will take spending up to a billion dollars every two-and-a-half days. I could say that $1 billion will buy so many doses of anti-retrovirals, or that it could pay 400 public workers a hundred dollars a day, or that [...]

It’s easy, if you’re willing to use the internet as a by-pass medium to get around the funders that control both parties. All other things being the same, there are five issues you can emphasize that will get you enough of the independent and Democrat crossover vote to win in the General Elections in 2008, [...]

Our new site, Insurgent American, makes the claim that — however nascent and unknown it is right now — it is a “practical strategic resource.” It’s time to flesh that out a bit more, because the antiwar movement appears to be at an impasse. A good deal of that impasse can be attributed to the [...]

From the Christian Science Monitor: While only 24 percent of likely voters nationwide approve of Mr. Bush’s handling of the war, slightly more voters say it has been worth the loss of American lives, according to a Zogby poll released Friday. “It’s now clearly a Republican war,” says pollster John Zogby, noting that 59 percent [...]

On January 18, 2007, the putative Prime Minister of Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki launched rhetorical barbs at his masters in the Bush administration, appealing for more weapons even as the Americans ignored his behind-the-scenes plea not to set him up for a war with Muqtada al-Sadr. Bush, he said, was yielding to media pressure in the [...]