Since Bad Government Costs the Same as Good, Let's Choose Good
Under a McCain or any other modern conservative administration, it's not that there would be noticeably less government -- it's that there would be worse government.
I know it's not a great job. And I know you didn't like it the first time. But that was because of Bill and Hill. They won't be there. I will. Here's the deal: we'll redefine the job. I know, I know -- everyone says this, but I mean it.
Under a McCain or any other modern conservative administration, it's not that there would be noticeably less government -- it's that there would be worse government.
To understand how we got ourselves in the middle of an election with so little information and so much suspicion, we need to review the 2004 election issues that revolved around John Kerry.
If scientists believe that invisible dark matter and unobservable dark energy make up the vast majority of the universe, then why should mystical accounts of an unseeable cosmos be any more inconceivable?
The next president should create a brand new position, which should become a permanent part of the Executive Branch in the future: a Civil Liberties Advisor.
Obama's resort to triangulation is an admission of a serious limitation -- that he does not believe in his own ability to reframe issues in a way that makes a progressive stance the one that is obviously the most moral.
I'm certain the depiction of trauma and loss suffered by Iraq veterans will be recognized as playing a critical role in galvanizing the American public against an otherwise fundamentally sanitized war.
"The process is broken," one of Seymour Hersh's informants told him, "and this is dangerous stuff we're authorizing." Yet the Democrats may think that what they don't know can't hurt them at the polls.
Obama's got a lot to lose all of a sudden. That means he's going to have to fight the temptation to play it safe even when it may be unwise.
The fact that North Korea can be accepted into the international community makes me think that the "Axis of Evil" was really the "Axis of the Dangerously Misguided."
I have long argued that it is neither the drag queens nor the dykes on bikes that are the issue when it comes to Pride parades. Instead, it's the perception that's shaped by Bill O'Reilly's industry.
I hope the faces in these photographs will convey the level of suffering being inflicted upon innocent men, women and children and will inspire others to act as they have inspired me.
For too long, there has been an assumption that there's a Cracker Jack prize somewhere at this magical "center" -- that playing it safe nets you the fifty percent-plus-one you need to win.