Deep Thought

I feel very disturbed right now. We've all heard all those drug ads on television: Why continue to suffer with painful and debilitating ...

I hate having to defend people who I consider toads, but right now that's just what I have to do. Last week a British court gave a victo...

Pay attention to the candidates for a week. One of them is laying out ideas and plans for the future, talking about what needs to be done bo...

If nothing else, you know we are winning the battle of ideas when even the Bush administration is reversing itself at a dizzying pace. Not l...

Remember when Barack Obama said that he was willing to meet unconditionally with foreign leaders we don't get along with, including Iran...

One of my favorite Arizona bloggers, Tedski, did a post on the worst side of John McCain's sense of sick 'humor' in which he du...

I think that Hillary Clinton is a better candidate when she's stumping for someone else. And it's good to see that she's keeping...

President Bush went to his last G-8 summit this week, and spent the week with other leaders of developed countries discussing a variety of t...

How do you figure out a way to hide millions in relief supplies from the people who need it, and then give it away to other state agencies i...

A lot has been made about Barack Obama's supposed 'flip-flops.' First there was the campaign finance issue, when he reversed a p...

It's hard to even know what to say about this story : NEW YORK (AP) -- City hospital officials said they were shocked by surveillance f...

This week we've been reminded again how important a gift democracy is, by watching another country in which it has been brutally suppres...

A lot has happened since I went on vacation a couple of weeks ago. So here is a brief wrap-up of what's been going on. 1. I was disappoi...

I will be leaving on vacation for a couple of weeks, so I'd like to bring up two (somewhat related topics) that I've been mulling ov...

The last primary results are in and the last state to vote, Montana (which closed its polls one hour after South Dakota and so deserves cred...

Today, Barack Obama resigned from the church he has belonged to for twenty years, Trinity United Church of Christ. He said that the reason h...

The Governor's office has put forward a plan to reduce overcrowding in state prisons and save money by sending some prison inmates to co...

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan is out with a book in which he claims that the Bush administration deliberately skewed fa...

While websurfing tonight I came upon a blog called elecric venom and a humorous post on John McCain's age. At the risk of being politic...

Every once in awhile I will put up a comment on another blog that I feel would stand in its own right as a post. And that is the case here. ...