I’ll be taking a week’s vacation to visit family and go fishing in Northern Wisconsin beginning now. I’ll be off the grid for most of the time. I will be back to regular posting come the beginning of July.

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In the very first session of Congress this year, the newly Democratic-led House of Representatives passed a resolution requiring members to disclose the earmarks they have placed in spending bills. It would identify what is was for, how much it is for and which House member requested it. This was hailed as fulfilling a promise [...]

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Loyalty to the Republican party apparently has begun to eclipse loyalty to the law. With Scooter Libby, VP Cheney’s former Chief of Staff, now convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice, rallying around him has apparently started to become a litmus test of Republican loyalty.
Most of the Republican presidential candidates have avoided [...]

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I’ve created a consolidated list of the official presidential candidate campaign websites on a new page. You can either look for the link in the pages section of the sidebar or you can just click here.

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As promised, I analyzed the Democrat candidates’ ability to respond to direct questions with clear answers in their second debate. The goal is the same as it was when I analyzed the Republican candidates in their third debate.
I wanted to discover who among them is most likely to answer the question asked, who prefers [...]

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I analyzed the Republican candidates’ ability to respond to direct questions with clear answers in the third debate. The results were surprising and revealing. I’m even handing out awards based on their performance!
The goal was to determine who among them is most likely to answer the question asked, who prefers giving hollow answers by speaking [...]

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The New York Times reported that Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, David Obey, has decided to change how each congressmember’s pet pork barrel projects, known as earmarks, get reviewed. He’s decided that the 36,000 earmarks will be posted in the Congressional Record one month before they’ll be voted on for final approval. That’s 36,000 [...]

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I’ll admit it. I never understood how someone who is legally living in the U.S. can suddenly become an “enemy combatant” and held without charge in a U.S. Navy Brig. Isn’t there supposed to be due process? The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals thinks so.

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This from Bloomberg:
A resolution to express “no confidence” in Alberto Gonzales, President George W. Bush’s embattled attorney general, was blocked by U.S. Senate Republicans who called it a meaningless gesture… Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell chided Democrats for “spending our time on a meaningless resolution about giving the president advice about who the attorney general [...]

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There is a silver lining in the Iraq war cloud. After spending almost $400 million thus far at a cost of nearly 3500 of U.S. military lives with no end in sight after four and a half years, it’s easy to name the numerous ways that the war has been bad for America. But what about the ways it’s been good for the country?

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