Widgets For Peace

Please post this widget around your personal web world. The code is available here. This is a great educational tool to continue rallying support for Senator Feingold's plan (endorsed by the CU College Dems) to end the war in Iraq.




Perhaps another example of the Dems' superiority on the web.

Dems site

Check out the new Dems website at http://www.cudemocrats.com/

Obama Raises $25M

Senator Obama has raised an impressive $25 million for his campaign so far, putting him just behind Senator Clinton, who has thus far raised $26 million. Obama will be able to spend $23.5 million of that money on the primary race.

What is most impressive about this story is not just how much money Obama has raised; it is the fact that this money came from 100,000 different donors.

Because sticking it to the nutjobs is always fun...

I just thought I'd rehash the cover story from the National Review on May 9, 2005.

The first sentence: "It is time to say it unequivocally: We are winning in Iraq."

The rest here.

Regime Change Done Right

From within, that is. It looks like real change is on the way in Zimbabwe, where it does not seem that Mugabe will hold on much longer. The crackdown on dissent has been bloody, but nothing like what we have seen in Iraq, of course. Consider: would this be under way if the West had decided to invade at some point after Mugabe thumbed his nose at us? Even if the regime does not fall for a year or five years to come, surely this slow process of genuine revolt is preferable to a bloody attack from outsiders. And should not conservatives agree with that?

The BBC on mounting pressure in Zimbabwe

Senator McCain: "..."

A question about the effectiveness of condoms in preventing the spread of H.I.V. stumped Senator McCain, leading to a rather awkward and revealing moment in McCain's '08 campaign.

Senator McCain, this is not a matter of opinion. This is science. The use of condoms dramatically reduces the risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases and infections, including H.I.V. Please stop this ridiculous pandering to the socially conservative right.

Another one.

You have got to be kidding me. Newt Gingrich not only had an affair while pursuing Clinton's impeachment, but he actually stands by his decision.

"Gingrich argued in the interview, however, that he should not be viewed as a hypocrite for pursuing Clinton's infidelity."

hyp·o·crite /ˈhɪpəkrɪt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[hip-uh-krit] –noun

a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, esp. a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.

Fair and Balanced

Christ.

The Verdict is In

Former Cheney Chief of Staff Scooter Libby has been found guilty of four counts of perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements for his role in the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame.

We've known for years that the men (and token women) running Bush's White House are incompetent, but criminally so? This is a sad day for America.

White House Fails to Protect Chemical Plants After Bowing to Pressure From Labor Leaders, Environmentalists, Scientists

Just Kidding.

Rudolph the Red-Faced Father

Commendation is due to Gawker for their insight into the true Rudy Giuliani and for their coverage of his rather pathetic feud with his uber-spoiled son. I have never been a fan of hounding the children of Dick Cheney and Bill Frist just to point out that their fathers are hypocrites (like more proof was necessary), but I think "sorry Dad, I have to go golfing for the next two years straight" says something about the quality of the parenting at hand, not just about genetics.

Coulter Strikes Again

During an address at this weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Ann Coulter called former US Senator John Edwards (D-NC) a faggot, to raucous applause. And it's on video.

There are no words.

Galileo Redux

Texas State Rep. Warren Chisum, a nine-term Democrat-turned-Republican, recently forwarded a memo to every member of the Texas State House that challenged the notions of a heliocentric Universe as heretical. You read that correctly—a sitting legislator, charged with managing complex issues like global warming and energy security in the Internet age refuses to believe that the Earth revolves around the Sun. We'd make a snarky comment, but we think the quote below speaks for itself:

"Indisputable evidence - long hidden but now available to everyone - demonstrates conclusively that so-called secular evolution science is the Big Bang 15-billion-year alternate 'creation scenario' of the Pharisee Religion,"

McCain To Seek Presidency

Tune into Letterman tonight to see Senator John McCain (R-AZ) announce his candidacy in the 2008 race.

Rabble-Rousing

John Kerry

What is with these guys after they bungle their presidential runs? Is there something about the Democratic nomination that removes one's charisma? It certainly seems to return immediately after they lose. I don't even have to post the story; just look at this picture (and ok, click on the picture for the Crooks and Liars piece that--as always--has the video):

Don Imus

Conservatives do not support the troops. When Democrats go out of their way to support the troops, Republicans attack them!

No One Is Pro-War

Laura Bush went on Larry King last night and said, "No one's pro-war." She also suggested that we will probably still be in Iraq at the end of the Bush presidency. These do not sound like the typical White House talking points to me, which could mean one of two things. Either Laura Bush is unable or unwilling to stay on message or Laura Bush is trying to prod her husband closer to reality. Given her track record, the former is certainly more likely, but the latter is certainly more intriguing.

Crooks and Liars has the video

Old Man McCain

John McCain seems to have once been a reasonable fellow. He was always very conservative--I never understand his popularity on the left during the 2000 campaign, except perhaps as a reaction to the obvious doublespeak of the Bush camp--but he at least stood for something. As we face the frightening prospect of this old man running for the highest office again despite apparently slipping into senility and losing all conception of justice in his quest to become president, I am posting here two McCains--then and now.

Then:

"If you get involved in a major ground war in the Saudi desert, I think support will erode significantly. Nor should it be supported. We cannot even contemplate, in my view, trading American blood for Iraqi blood."

John McCain, New York Times, August 19, 1990.

Now:

No Go for Joe

As a Sabbath-observant Jew myself, I have nothing but respect for Senator Lieberman's (I-CT) decision to put his faith first over the years, refusing to, among other things, campaign on the Sabbath, and voting in Congress only when absolutely crucial - that is, to say, when lives are on the line. You can imagine my dismay, then, when I read that this past Saturday "Joementum" walked to the Hill to cast a vote against allowing for debate of a non-binding Senate resolution symbolically opposing the McCain-endorsed escalation of the War in Iraq. Apparently, Lieberman feels so strongly that any Congressional debate of our increasingly murky mission in Iraq would give comfort to the enemy that he's willing to violate the sanctity of the Sabbath to keep his colleagues from so much as opening discussion as to the efficacy of an American mission that has left 3000 of our own servicemen and women dead, not to mention hundreds of thousands of Iraqi men, women, and children. For shame, Joe, for shame.

Nadler: Use the Power of the Purse

Representative Nadler gave a long speech against the war, the escalation, and the pathetic lack of resolve from Congress on the floor of the House today. Crooks and Liars has video, as usual.

" In the Supplemental Budget we will consider next month, we should exercise the only real power we have - the Congressional power of the purse. We will not cut off the funds, and leave our troops defenseless before the enemy, as the demagogues would imply, but we should limit the use of the funds we provide to protecting the troops while they are in Iraq and to withdrawing them on a timetable mandated in the law. We should provide funds to rebuild the army and to raise our readiness levels, for diplomatic conferences in case there is any possibility of negotiating an end to the Iraqi civil war, and for economic reconstruction assistance, but above all, we must use the power of the purse to mandate a timetable to withdraw our troops from Iraq.

"We must use the power the people have entrusted to us. The best way to protect our troops is to withdraw them from the middle of a civil war they cannot win, and that is not our fight.

"I know that, if we withdraw the troops, the civil war may continue and could get worse. But this is probably inevitable, no matter how long our troops remain. And if the Iraqis must fight a civil war, I would rather they fight it without 20,000 more Americans dying.

"Yes, the blindness of the Administration is largely to blame for starting the civil war in Iraq, but we cannot end it. Only the Iraqis can settle their civil war. We can only make it worse, and waste our blood and treasure pointlessly."

Another element of the war...

One problem with the war that has received a great deal of attention with the forward-thinking Dems body as we discussed our unified position on Iraq is that of regional instability. The war itself has led to enormous regional instability, and we felt that any plan we endorsed would have to address that. It is, therefore, sadly inappropriate that--on the very night that we chose to endorse a position--news of just such instability came out of Iran. A bus bombing killed eighteen people a few hours ago in Iran. Yes, that's IraN. Bush's mishandling of this debacle seems to be pushing us ever closer to a protracted regional conflict in a region prone to disastrous conflicts. Whether Douglas MacArthur really said it or not, the Princess Bride was almost certainly right about the follies of a land war in Asia.