I visited The Moving Wall this weekend. The Moving Wall is a half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial that travels around the country so those who can not make it to Washington D.C. can experience the power, and hopefully the healing, of the memorial. As I was reflecting upon the wall, contemplating all the [...]

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Those of you who read my July 2nd post knows that the Libby commutation was the final straw in my sincere, perhaps naive, hope that President Bush would rise above politics and bring something -anything- that I consider of value to his Presidency in the second term. I have also laid out where the President [...]

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Political euphemisms are used to describe commonly understood concepts so that they align with one’s political viewpoint. Sometimes the political agenda embedded in the phrase is obvious and strident. Often times a term is used to make an unpalatable concept seem acceptable, if not desirable. Most insidious is when a euphemism is used to conceal [...]

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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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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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