Fair and Balanced

Friday, September 15th, 2006

This letter in today's Amarillo Globe news made me thank once again that I believe in personal responsibility. James Fluegel says, among other things, "It is time conservatives who backed Bush on the Iraq misadventure admit we were deceived and wrong." His LTE says a lot of other stuff and ...

Learn From Our Government’s Mistakes

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

Today (yesterday at 11:30 pm actually) is the anniversary of the beginning of one of the greatest governmental failures of the entire United State's history. Wikipedia has a great write up on Katrina. The greatest thing I think we learned from that disaster was the grand ineptitude of government.   Many arguments can be ...

Fascism? Fear mongering?

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

I caught an article today that contained words from a man named John  Orman, who is a political science professor at Fairfield University, requesting that Joe Lieberman should be kept off the ballot in Connecticut's coming election.  I understand there might be some hard feelings among some voters over there, ...

Open Thread

Friday, August 18th, 2006

Here are some topics for conversaiton. The Jonebenet case in the news 10 years later. ACLU Once again subverts national security. US blocked Iran from shipping missiles to Hezbollah. jonbenet, aclu, karr, bush, nsa, Anna Diggs Taylor, iran, hezbollah

Lies?!?!

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

Recently the question was asked, "Why does the Globe-Republican (Amarillo Globe News) allow letter writers to blatantly lie?"  I would like to ask the newspaper the same question in regards to Jayne Farris' recently published letter. Ms. Farris makes many outlandish claims that can be construed as lies, willful ignorance, brain ...

“Worst President Ever” discussion on Digg.com

Friday, August 11th, 2006

First, a reiteration of digg. Digg is a site that promotes user submitted content that spans a wide variety of topics. Sports, gaming, entertainment, technology, and my favorite, politics. I like the politics the most because a wide variety of opinions is dished up in one location. Here ...