Shinseki has always put patriotism ahead of politics, and is held in high regard by veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Friends of mine assure me that this is a stealth priority -- New Orleans is an issue that Obama cares so deeply about he dare not mention it yet.
This is not a time for the left wing of our Party to draw conclusions about the Cabinet and White House appointments that President-Elect Obama is making.
There is nothing in the current outlines of the auto bailout package that requires the auto industry to keep jobs in the U.S. This money can go to help them manage their facilities abroad.
Who is the more dangerous fraud -- the Nigerian bank spam and its comically brazen attempt to relieve me of $100,000, or the US bank whose ads ask for my business and my trust?
Kennedy's leadership could have been helpful when we were getting the stuffing beaten out of us by a well-financed right wing for the past eight years. When things were tough, she was nowhere to be found.
The general public feels it is not adequately protected against the random violence of terrorists, but every pro-active policing effort seriously alienates Muslims, India's largest minority community.
A defiant, peaceful march by 5,000 protesters to the grounds of the Presidential Palace yesterday marked the first month's anniversary of a renewed and re-invigorated national pro-democracy student movement.
If you inexplicably found any of those auto guys arousing in a more primal way, a leading news magazine suggests that "the quality of a man's sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa."
Palin's per diem abuse has been dismissed by her staff with comparisons to former Gov. Frank Murkowski. That's like comparing a bad bartender to Jim Jones' Guyana Kool-Aid Stand and drinking up.
The oil companies were not manipulating commodity prices. Their role has been limited to cheering on OPEC and lobbying our government to remain dangerously benign.
Jonathan Martin's claims about Obama in Politico on Sunday are outrageous lies by a self-serving "reporter" looking to get his story on the front page of Drudge.
I agree that given the severity of the current situation, massive government spending is pretty much our only hope right now. But arguing that it is a certainty is unwise.
Is Obama going to succeed where everyone since Alexander the Great failed -- including the British and the Soviets when they made the mistake of trying to invade and conquer Afghanistan?
This is a video of artists, activists and children reading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- send it to everyone you know.
Beyond its regional concentration, the Republican Party's face is from another time. Indeed, nearly half of the Republican caucus is composed of Southern white men.
"At least Bush kept us safe" is just the latest lie being passed by the Bush administration and their hacks.
Slate's theory of patronage is overwhelmed by its own example. You can't make a case against the crusty civil service and not worry about the layer of crust Bush is leaving behind.
The car makers, the economy, the 'war on terror' -- these are a few broken things. Problem is, we're using old thinking to fix them. The Episcopal Church is a worrying example of the tenacity of old thinking.
