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Betraying Barack: What Wright Has Wronged

Barack Obama is in trouble.

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Barack Obama Bashed by Citizen Bob Kerrey

We are former United States Senator Bob Kerrey fans.

We are current United States Senator Barack Obama fans.

We don’t like it when one of our objects of admiration bashes the other.

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Nixon and Bush: How Contempt and Dismay Form Unity in Dissent

Some political pundits are making connections between the tragic presidencies of Richard Milhous Nixon and George Walker Bush.
Those political wunderkinds earn their livings as purveyors of analysis-for-profit and they are now finding similarities in the corruption of the Nixon and Bush administrations — and they openly question aloud with building ferocity — why Nixon was prosecuted and why Bush takes no leave and offers no sword upon which to impale himself for his own misdeeds.

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Stem Cell Veto: Hurry Up and Die Already!

Yesterday’s veto of Stem Cell research — Bush’s second attempt at stopping human longevity — creates an uncomfortable schism between “Doing the Right Thing” and a narrow religious view pressed into the heart of human suffering favoring the possibility of life over established self-sustained living.
Bush once again presents to the world his indefensible selfish view of pretending to save lives while perpetuating incomprehensible, international, deaths on the battlefield.

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President Chuck Hagel

Yesterday I wrote an Urban Semiotic article called — Abandoning Kitchen Door Values — and after our fine discussion about how the decay of duty and the ravages of modern architecture have helped change community morality in the United States, I began to wonder back to Nebraska from New Jersey.

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Casting Caskets into the Iraqi Abyss

President Bush decided we’re going to surge 20,000 more troops into the abyss of Iraq and one can’t think he’s doing anything more than tossing more bodies into the volcano.

Casting Caskets

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A Despot President: The Military Commissions Act 2006

On October 17, 2006, President Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act 2006.

Despot President

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