So now the guy who deserves an executive producer credit for those wonderful photos from Abu Ghraib will likely rise to the chair of Attorney General, or should we make…
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Despite the tenor of several recent essays it is not my intention to morph Dragon City Journal into a backdoor journal of moral philosophy. But it seems appropriate, in…
I wrote earlier this month (15.3) that what the right wing calls the “heartland” of America, really isn’t the heartland. And, at least in terms of security, the type…
In the post election mortem there has emerged a lot of the stuff that falls out of the back ends of bulls about the “heartland” of America. The reference—and…
The simple, make that simplistic, logic of George Bush’s bifurcation of the world into the good and the evil and its correlative those who are “with us or agin us”…
I have expressed opinions on democracy earlier in these pages, but mostly with regard to the dreamy ambitions of the Bush neo-cons about establishing (installing) oil-friendly “democracies” in the Middle…
As the information about voting motivation and behavior in the presidential election are teased out by forensic journalists and political analysts it appears that a critical factor in results was…
The morning after the election I did what I often do when something gets me down: I sat down at the piano and start noodle-ing some blues dirges, the…
In 2000, from Hong Kong, where I watched the election being stolen, I emailed many friends (it’s not the same list of friends now) that “now the stealing from the…
Prevarication seems to come as easily to Republican politicians these days as does gullibility to their constituency. The willingness of the latter to believe that their leader’s implication that…