McCain has his economic plan: When Senator John McCain was asked here this afternoon how he plans to balance the budget, he said that he hoped to do so by stimulating economic growth – and approvingly cited the example of President Ronald Reagan As The Huffington Post points out, and anyone over the age of […]
Environmentalists have feared that Bush would try to use his last year in office to push for opening up areas for drilling, and that is exactly his plan: The Bush administration has proposed allowing oil and gas drilling in an area of the Bering Sea considered important for the recovery of the world’s most endangered […]
Night Reflections Originally uploaded by intoxination It has been really nice out the last few days, so last night I decided to do some night shots. I took this one from my upper deck. I love how the reflection came out on my flooded pool cover. If only it was a little foggy, then it […]
If you ask any right winger they say it is. I admit violence has dropped in Iraq, but was that the purpose of the surge? No. The purpose was to give the government “breathing room” to come to political reconciliation. Well they were given this breathing room and it hasn’t happened. That means that only […]
Of course what they are paying attention to is a poll that says McCain leads Obama and Clinton on the issue of Iraq by 14%. They also seem dumbfounded by the results. Really? I’m not. Here’s why McCain is doing good in that part of the poll. The fault lies in the same people who […]
This story was buried on page A21 of the Washington Post yesterday: A new assessment of U.S. policy in Iraq by the same experts who advised the original Iraq Study Group concludes that political progress is “so slow, halting and superficial” and political fragmentation “so pronounced” that the United States is no closer to being […]