Borrowing a line from MSNBC’s Scarborough Country where, “no passport [is] required, only common sense,” I will claim an honorary doctorate in common sense.
This commentary will be socially and politically liberal, fiscally tight as a drum and will rely heavily on good, plain, old common sense.
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Another morally flawed AG
Posted by: Eric Benson -
11/11/07 @ 8:27PM
If we can accept that water boarding is torture and that is torture is illegal, the United States Senate is morally bankrupt. It has confirmed Mukasey as Attorney General.
Army Officers send a message to Bush
Posted by: Eric Benson -
11/07/07 @ 12:58AM
Is the Bush administration, like the claims of so many GOP administrations before it, supportive of our military? Many of us have argued that sending troops into combats based on false claims and with inadequate planning is the ultimate display...
I don't know
Posted by: Eric Benson -
09/11/07 @ 8:17PM
Add Gen Patraeus to the long list of Bush officials that hide behind a rather lame "I don't know" or an even lamer "I don't remember" to avoid answering questions.
Today Patraeus was asked if his mission in Iraq was making America a safer place. He doesn't...
Virtually impotent
Posted by: Eric Benson -
09/11/07 @ 8:10PM
Fran Townsend, the president's personal, in-house, homeand security adviser, when on TV Sunday and told the world that Osama bn Laden was "virtually impotent." Is that like waving a red flag in front of a bull?
Does it make any difference that her boss, several years...