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, [...]

I have posted a Petition-Online for those who are interested: a pledge to abstain from voting for anyone who continues to approve funds for the war. If you agree with this, please give the url the widest circulation possible. The text is below, but I want to re-emphasize that signing requires going to the url [...]

From Sara Rich Good Order and Discipline From Suzanne’s case to the world at large In thinking about this phrase “Good Order and Discipline” and its impact on my family, I have to come to the conclusion that the people defining “Good Order and Discipline” for Suzanne’s case are comparable to the Commander and Chief. [...]

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 [...]

An analysis of the Bush “surge” in Iraq “Jodl! Is Paris burning?” —Adolf Hitler Aug. 25, 1944 Backstage The United States makes up about 5 percent of the Earth’s population, but as an aggregate we burn more than 25 percent of its fossil energy. That’s roughly true of all three main forms of fossil energy—oil, [...]

The Bush-Maliki Plan, now called The Surge, to deploy an additional 20,000 US troops to Iraq is a last-ditch effort to prevent a decisive US political defeat in Iraq. The principle purpose of this “surge” is to destroy the Mehdi Army of Muqtada al Sadr , who broke his alliance with the Maliki government after [...]

For the end of the year… Thirty-six separate commentaries from throughout the year. 2006: My Year with the Liberals By Stan Goff Spouting off on everything from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Anorexia nervosa, from gay marriage to vice-presidential gun safety, a middle-aged Army veteran without qualifications or credentials takes caustic potshots at the rich and infamous. [...]

The pundits exclaim. See the pundits exclaim. Exclaim, exclaim, exclaim. The Commander-in-Chief pronounces. See the Commander-in-Chief pronounce. Pronounce, pronounce, pronounce. (Just don’t pronounce “nuclear.”) I must be living in a parallel universe where why everything that is deemed most significant by the New York Times, CNN, and Harvard professors, is hidden from me. I watch [...]