"Beam Me Up, Scottie!"

Just in case you hadn't noticed, we're in a Bushworld too absurd for words. But that hasn't stopped this administration from yakking its collective head off.

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America's One and One-half Party System

I remember vividly, and painfully, a discussion I had on Columbus Day 2002, one day after the Senate had given Bush, by a vote of 77-23, the power to conduct war as he pretty damn well pleased, thus assuring the Iraq invasion, and the inhumanity that such war would bring. The House had voted a few hours earlier, also giving the White House its vote of confidence, 296-133.

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Smothering the King Legacy with Kind Words

Hours after Coretta Scott King died, President Bush led off the State of the Union address by praising her as "a beloved, graceful, courageous woman who called America to its founding ideals and carried on a noble dream." For good measure, at the end of his speech, Bush reverently invoked the name of her martyred husband, Martin Luther King Jr.

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The Challenges of Maximalist Democracy
Dr. Liaquat Ali Khan 

In its crusade to democratize the Muslim world, the Bush administration faces the challenges of maximalist democracy---an all-inclusive conception of democracy that generates free and full electoral competition among parties with diverse political platforms. Maximalist democracy loathes diminishing universal suffrage, banning political parties, or restricting political platforms. In the Muslim world, maximalist democracy requires that both Islamic and secular parties be allowed to organize and compete in general elections, and form government upon winning.

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Don’t Change The Channel! We Will Be Back After These Messages

Saddam Hussein may soon be executed and at the end of his life, he is the main character in a drama that no fiction writer would concoct. The writer would be deemed mad, out of touch with reality. Saddam finds himself in hyperactive reality however. Fitting perhaps, for a man that has lived a surreal life.  

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Congressional Ethics After Abramoff

The Abramoff scandal has spurred one of the episodic "reform" moments on Capitol Hill.

Republicans and Democrats are competing to offer ethics reform packages that ignore entirely their past entanglement in the very activities they now seek to regulate or eliminate.

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When Sharon Meets His Maker

"Laura and I share the concerns of the Israeli people about Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's health, and we are praying for his recovery. Prime Minister Sharon is a man of courage and peace…"
George W Bush (US President and man of courage and peace)

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