Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying

The Bush Administration has effectively signed Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki’s Death Warrant. The memo from National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley that undermined the Bush-Maliki summit in Jordan has now made Nouri al-Maliki a marked man in Iraq. Whether that was the intention of the leaked memo is unclear, but it will certainly be its effect, [...]

 
The talk of Washington is the Iraq Study Group. Everyone, including the Democrats, is waiting for the two beltway sages, James Baker and Lee Hamilton, to rescue them from the chaos in Iraq. You will recall that some time ago Washington was eagerly awaiting a similar sounding group, the Iraq Survey Group, to rescue George W Bush [...]

 
"Rock The Casbah" is probably the most misunderstood political song of modern times, but like this post it has nothing to do with rock and roll and everything to do with politics and religion…
I don’t often write about Islam directly. The last time I wrote about my views on Islam was over a half a [...]

 
To all who visit this blog, Happy Thanksgiving. Thanks to those who share their thoughts on this blog and enrich our little virtual community. Thanks to those who read in silence and continue to come back.
We all have much to be thankful for, regardless of our station in life.
I am thankful to have [...]

By now I am sure everyone has seen and heard Michael Richards’ racist tirade at the Laugh Factory. Tonight he appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman trying to explain his actions. I just finished watching his halting apology and don’t know what to make of it.
This is more of an open thread than [...]

George W Bush’s drive-by presidency continues to haunt the world. This week finds Mr. Bush in the unlikeliest of places. After driving us into a quagmire in Iraq, Mr. Bush took a holiday in another American quagmire - Vietnam. His visit to Vietnam, however, did not suffer from the common touch:

President Bush likes speed golf [...]

Justice was delayed 18 years, but today it has come:

A British man on Pakistan’s death row for 18 years was freed Friday and flew out of the country following an act of clemency by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf that was hailed by human rights groups.
Mirza Tahir Hussain "is on his way back home," British High [...]

You know, where I am from, the thugs who sometimes call themselves cops get their kicks the old fashioned way, they beat the crap out of you. In America, we like our justice high tech. But abuse of power is abuse of power, and thuggery is thuggery, even when its been dressed up with high technology.
So, when [...]

Investor’s Business Daily, tell us how you really feel:

The likely new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says he’s just fighting bigotry in leading a Democrat jihad to deny law enforcement key terror-fighting tools. But he is in the pocket of Islamists.
John Conyers, son of a leftist Detroit union activist, represents the largest Arab population [...]

 
Meanwhile the killing continues…

This farming community buried the al-Athamnah family Thursday, after marching through muddy streets bearing the bodies of the dead aloft and reaffirming in angry chants its commitment to war with Israel.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians squeezed through narrow lanes here a day after Israeli artillery shells killed 20 civilians, all but three [...]