The Smug Baldy Speaks

US Army Col (Ret) Daniel Smith asks some very provocative questions in a recent article on Foreign Policy In Focus: The headline-grabber read: “U.S. Plans New Arms Sales to Gulf Allies.” Nothing startling there. For decades the United States has routinely sold or transferred weapons and ammunition, sent military teams abroad or brought foreign military [...]

In an interesting article on Bloomberg.com about how Congress is seeking a special prosecutor to investigate whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez repeatedly lied under oath, Tony Fratto, a former lobbyist turned Deputy White House Press Secretary, is quoted as follows: Bush spokesman Tony Fratto said Leahy is “more interested in headlines” than in reaching accommodation [...]

There are plenty of horror flicks out there, but way deep down we know they’re fictional and so we’re not really scared by them. Startled, maybe. Disgusted, sure. But not really scared. No, in order for a movie to really reach inside you and send an icy chill all along your spine, there has to [...]

Earlier, we had a bit of fun with Democratic Congressman Robert Wexler from Florida concerning an appearance on The Colbert Report that was, um, edited a bit by Fox News. Last week, Wexler introduced his measure censuring President Bush for : “his unconscionable abuse of his authority with regard to the deceitful chain of events [...]

My wife gets kudos for this one: The Foundation for Critical Thinking has posted a list of critiques in the news, titled Police States or Critical Societies? Critical Thinking and the Forces Arrayed Against It. The list starts with a brief introduction that asserts: There are two opposing social tendencies relevant to critical thinking, each [...]

On Thursday, the Republican presidential candidates demonstrated their support for civil rights at the NAACP GOP Presidential Candidate Forum. Unlike their democratic counterparts, 90% of the GOP presidential candidates elected to skip the NAACP Forum. GOP frontrunner, Rudy Giuliani apparently forgot about the event, and attended a $1000/plate fund raiser instead: After his speech, Giuliani [...]

Got this by way of the Gun Toting Liberal. Congressman Wexler to File Resolution Censuring President Bush for Commuting Libby’s Prison Sentence (Washington, D.C.) Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) has drafted and will file a Congressional resolution censuring President George W. Bush for his egregious and politically motivated commutation of Scooter Libby’s prison sentence. The censure [...]

For better than 30 years, the Republican party has consistently misused and abused science and scientific knowledge for the purpose of advancing the social agenda of party conservatives, and promoting the economic agenda of its large corporate supporters. That’s not to say that Democrats have not also abused science as well, but the Republicans have, [...]

This comes by way of mooncat at LeftInAlamama.com. On July 3rd, Keith Olbermann broadcasted one of the best “Special Comment” installments ever, in which he called on President Bush and Vice President Cheney to have as much decency as Richard Nixon had when he chose to resign than to continue to bow to partisan politics. [...]

Just in case you think Alabama is all about good ol’ boy politics, we find a bit of refreshing news that former Alabama governor Don Siegelman, and his partner in crime Richard Scrushy, were taken to prison in shackles yesterday. Siegleman was convicted of bribery, conspiracy and mail fraud, and was sentenced to 7 years [...]