Deep Thought

It is no secret that for years, Wal-Mart has underpaid its employees, and offered employees health care benefits at such a high price, that ...

There is an election coming up in Canada on January 23, an election that seems likely to result in the election of a slate of Conservative ...

I've been waiting a week to see if Pat Robertson was going to say anything to address the idiotic comment he made one week ago today abo...

It is almost a point of no dispute among Republicans that active duty military almost unanimously support the President and his policy, and ...

After going ga-ga over the governor's speech, it's time to ask a question that immediately popped into my mind as I read today's...

Governor Napolitano gave her state of the state address today. And it reminded me of how lucky we are to have her as the Governor of this f...

Today, the Samuel Alito hearings began. To begin with, the outcome is a foregone conclusion: Because Republicans won 55 seats in the Senate,...

Six of the coal miners were buried yesterday. The rest will be buried early this week. I resisted the temptation to put up a post on this af...

Yesterday, I blogged on the mutiny within Republican ranks against suspended, indicted and joined-at-the-hip-to-Jack-Abramoff Majority Leade...

The Republicans in the house may have decided they've had enough of Tom DeLay. They are circulating a petition to force a vote to remove...

In a story out just within the past few hours, a Congressional Service has undercut the Bush administration's legal argument in favor o...

It's been a few weeks since the last time Pat Robertson said something stupid (then it was about how residents of the town of Dover, Pen...

With the revelations of what is going on involving disgraced fundraiser Jack Abramoff, there has been a rush of sorts, of politicians return...

As a general rule, I haven't put up a large number of posts discussing specific political races, but this one is interesting , because i...

Every so often it comes up that I will put up a post that may provoke some disagreement among regular readers and this is one of those. Frid...

One week ago, I put up a blog on the fun time I had with the healthcare system when my wife had to go to the ER (and generated 26 comments,...

Funny (or in this case, tragic) how the timing of certain events seems to coincide to bring an issue into perspective. In today's Arizon...

As a follow up on the last post, I do applaud the efforts of people who work to make sure that people who would otherwise die in the desert ...

On July 9, 2005 two No More Deaths volunteers, Shanti Sellz and Daniel Strauss, were arrested by the United States Border Patrol while medi...

I recently got an email from someone who has been a reader (though infrequent commentor) on 'Deep Thought' since it began. The email...