The Democrats, as usual, have it all wrong when it comes to Iraq. We don’t need a timetable for bringing home the troops, we need one for the contractors and subcontractors — that’s where the real money is going. Of course, then you’d have to know how many of them there are.
The Iraq reconstruction effort, […]

On Friday, the Texas Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested a homegrown American rightwing terrorist named Paul Ross Evans who had attempted to bomb an abortion clinic in Austin earlier in the week week:
A cynic might wonder if the reason DHS leaves domestic terrorists to task forces like the one in Texas is political, since […]

The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution’s Bill of Rights.
— Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of Harvard Law School

A lot of us have gotten lessons lately in how easy it’s become to offend.
An entertainment reporter for Jacksonville’s WJXT Channel 4, John Citrone, was recently fired* ala Don Imus. He joked on the air about something profoundly unfunny — runaway wildfires in South Georgia.
“Do we really care if Georgia burns?” he asked.
Being offended […]

ABC News:
Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias submitted his resignation Friday, one day after confirming to ABC News that he had been a customer of a Washington, D.C. escort service whose owner has been charged by federal prosecutors with running a prostitution operation.
Tobias, 65, director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and administrator of the […]

There are two events this weekend to commemorate Ryan Skipper’s birthday — a memorial today in Atlanta, and a fundraiser tomorrow in Auburndale, Fla., for the Ryan Keith Skipper Foundation.
Memorial in Atlanta
Note: Check Georgia Equality website for last minute schedule changes.

Saturday, April 28, 2007
1:00pm
First Metropolitan Community Church
1379 Tullie Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30329
404-325-4143
For more information on […]

The Pew Research Center has just released a poll that found six out of 10 Americans do not want President Bush to veto the Iraq spending bill that calls for a timetable for troop withdrawal. That’s almost as many Americans as voted for Al Gore for president in 2000!
The poll detected deep-seated pessimism among Americans […]

I am persuaded that diverse of you, who lead the people, have labored to build yourselves in these things; wherein you have censured others, and established yourselves ‘upon the Word of God.’ Is it therefore infallibly agreeable to the Word of God, all that you say? I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think […]

Sen. John McCain is out banging the drum for Bush-style perpetual war by strongly criticizing the Democrats’ plan to redeploy troops from Iraq, which, via Rove talking points, he calls a “precipitous withdrawal.”
Well, look who was for precipitous withdrawals in the 1990s:
October 1994 — McCain argued for the precipitous withdrawal of U.S. forces from […]