Categories: Current Affairs, Legal Nonsense, Mainstream Media Narcolepsy, War on Christmas, Why my God is better than your God (or your non-God)
Rush Limbaugh suddenly suffers from amnesia
by Graham 
Of course, you knew that Rush would feel obliged to weigh in with his usual barely-coherent pile of invective on the subject of Cindy Sheehan. However, what is more interesting is that, having uttered the usual sort of Rushian falsehoods about Cindy, he… more »
08/24/05 06:49:12 pm, A Sobering review of focus group attitudes to the Democratic party
by Graham
This report, just issued, shows the challenge that the Democratic Party faces in appealing to current Republican voters. Clearly, the Republicans have been extremely successful in causing a large number of voters to self-identify with the Republican Part… more »
Back in the Days of Yore...
by Graham
...When a certain William Jefferson Clinton was the President of the United States, circa 1999, the US launched military action in Kosovo to try and assist a very tricky and messy situation. The above link shows what the Republican leadership, spokespeop… more »
The Boston Globe is at it again...
by Graham
Normally I don't cross-link between my various blogs, mainly because they cover very separate (and different) areas of interest, and somebody interested in (say) Information Technology may not wish to read my latest rants about politics.
However, today… more »
Another example of reality not matching rhetoric...
by Graham
The article above demonstrates that the Bush Administration assertion that the US is fighting Al Quaeda in Iraq is simplistic at best, and probably downright inaccurate. The Iraqi insurgents were radicalized into going to Iraq to fight by what happened d… more »
Your taxpayer dollars at work
by Graham
An interesting article which points out that the formula for allocating spending on Homeland Security does not appear to take into account such fundamental attributes as population density and exposure to risk.
The result: sparsely populated landlocked… more »
The waters of the Plame affair are getting murkier
by Graham
This report today strongly suggests that none other than Karl Rove may have been the leaker of the information that was used to "out" Valerie Plame...Bush once stated that he would fire anybody in his administration who was found to be guilty of "leaking… more »
London bombings
by Graham
Enough has already been written about the events in London, but the best comment I heard came from an elderly Londoner who grew up in the WW II Blitz and was also caught up in the Canary Wharf boming incident in the late 1980's:
"I've been blown up by… more »
Hmmm...amazing how slippery rhetoric can be...
by Graham
An interesting collection of quotes from some of our leading governmental figures, culled from an earlier period in their lives when they apparently, er, thought rather differently... more »