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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 and political costs. We...

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 might...

Those Pandagon Boys

So, I have to admit, the idea of asking Moreno to co-author this blog with me was party inspired by Ezra Klein and Jesse Taylor over at Pandagon.net. Here were two young guys, one in Ohio, the other Cali, both interested in politics, both articulate and witty, and...

Above San Diego

A couple nights ago long time friend and fellow caffeine peddler/small plane pilot, Nat took Mei and I up into San Diego's most inner outasphere. For most of the time we were about 3000 feet above sea level but the ground below us looked teasingly touchable. Like...