As one who never bought the Bushies’ hogwash in the run-up to the war in Iraq, the only piece of the puzzle that made me doubt my instincts that the Bush team – Bush, Cheney, Powell and Rice – were simply lying about the reasons the reasons for going to war was the strange case [...]

Jeb’s looking presidential again. He went to Rome to attend the pope’s inauguration.
Reuters:
Bush, who converted to Catholicism to share the faith of his Mexican-born wife Columba, will lead the U.S. delegation to the inauguration of Pope Benedict on Sunday on behalf of President Bush.
Why do they say “Mexican-born?” Why don’t they just say, “Mexican?” [...]

When did we as a society and individuals become a lynch mob? A very sad case in Florida shows what happens when hysteria over recent child killings by sex offenders takes on a life of its own.
Southwest Florida Herald-Tribune:
A convicted sex offender apparently committed suicide in despair over signs posted in his neighborhood calling [...]

One of the things that probably kept Florida’s new senator, Mel Martinez, too busy to notice his staff writing memos was his vote to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He claimed he sold out Alaska in order to save Florida, but the state’s other senator, Bill Nelson, scoffed and said all Mel did [...]

More signs of life from Florida Democratics, whose House members continue to challenge Republican-sponsored attempts to shut voters out of the state constitution. From their press release today:
Driven by their purported desire to “rescue the voters” by restricting a citizen’s right to participate in their government, the Republican-led Florida House of Representatives rejected a proposal [...]

An audio recording obtained by the Los Angeles Times: has nabbed two leading wingnuts plotting to subvert the federal judiciary via Congressional fiat, chiefly by zeroing out funding for courts whose decisions they and their Constitution-hating supporters don’t like.
The two plotters are Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council, and James C. Dobson, [...]

It must be hard to make the Army sound appealing these days. At least, that’s what some top ad agencies so rudely found out today.
AdAge.com:
In a blow to six agencies that have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to pitch the U.S. Army for its advertising account, the government today canceled the long-running review…
The [...]

Wingnuts like Lou Sheldon (right), chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition, and the reverends Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson and their ilk must cast gayness as a “choice” in order to prevent same-sex orientation from being considered “natural,” which would make gay people worthy of protection under civil rights laws. (Thus ending one of [...]

Today’s Los Angeles Times – front page, above the fold – has a story titled “Schwarzenegger’s Top Ally Steps In.” The “ally” is, of course, Gov. Schwarzenegger’s wife, Maria Shriver, shown at right consorting with the enemy at last year’s Republican convention.
The Schwarzenegger regime (the Times refers them as his “senior staff” and [...]

THE FAMILY: THE REAL STORY OF THE BUSH DYNASTY by Kitty Kelley.
Published by Doubleday, September, 2004.
Reviewed by Pensito Review contributor Violet in NC.
Kitty Kelley is a brave woman. She writes, with both authority and vengeance, tell-all unauthorized biographies of powerful American personalities who are long of reach, big of ego, and short [...]