Liberal Hypocrisy?
There is an interesting conversation going which makes me both sad and happy. It makes me happy because I feel like I have played a small part in bridging a conservative community of bloggers with a liberal community of bloggers (the PBA). It makes me sad because much...
The Abosolute Versus The Relative
In my outreach effort to get both more conservatives and more liberals to be part of the conversation, many of my fellow liberals are writing back to say that they will discuss economics when we get there, but that they can’t discuss moral issues because they do...
A Case for Choice
This is the fourth time I’ve started writing my thoughts about the abortion debate. The other three times? My arguments all had flaws or contradictions. I’ve learned a lot this past week. Besides all the thoughtful comments that followed...
Coffee Notes – 11/11/04
I’m going to keep my coffee notes (shamelessly ripped off from Dave Winer) going even while we talk with HP for a couple reasons. For one, there’s other stuff besides politics that I want to jot down while I do my coffee thing (I’m down to only one...
Pleased to Introduce …
I’d like to welcome our Republican guest blogger HispanicPundit from hispanicpundit.com. I will let him introduce himself and how he came to his political views, but I want to explain how I first came across his blog. I believe I found this post via Latino...
Day 2 (Issues)
I heard from fewer of you than I had hoped, but still the comments were enthusiastic enough and so I’m gonna approach a couple people about becoming our Republican guest blogger. Abogado made a few really good points in his comment. When our newcoming Republican...
Day 1
So this is my idea; consider it training. I would like to invite an intelligent conservative Republican who voted for Bush to guest blog with us for a month. And I want us (I’m guessing the readers of this blog are 90% liberals) to try to convince him of his error. But I want insist demand the highest level of respect and thoughtfulness. I only want you leaving a comment on his posts if you have read the Christian Science Monitor article and if you can come up with well thought out, respectful arguments.
A World Transformed
In his memoirs, “A World Transformed,” written five years ago, George Bush Sr. wrote the following to explain why he didn’t go after Saddam Hussein at the end of the Gulf War: Trying to eliminate Saddam…would have incurred incalculable human...Friends from around the world
When I first started this blog, I didn’t quite know what I was getting into. I figured every third week or so I had a bright enough thought while sitting on the toilet and maybe this would be a way for me to put out those defecated gems of wisdom for anyone who...Latest Photos
