YAY! We have succeeded in bringing American-style democracy to Iraq: low voter turnout. Photo credit: Michael Kamber for The New York Time...

My enjoyment at seeing the front page news regarding gay marriage in Vermont was immediately shattered by this article concerning abuses ag...

After a grueling day at work, I can hardly hold down my white wine while watching McCain talking about the pre-surge surge that worked befor...

And many of those don't even vote. But, I don’t get this. Can someone explain it to me? Explain how "voters think McCain is bet...

Each dot represents the lost life of a soldier in Iraq. Each dot represents a name, a face , a family filled with sadness, a lost future, a...

My ranting contribution to the March 19 Iraq War Blogswarm ? I'm not sure I have it in me. I've been angry about this war for 5 yea...

Unless my math is wrong, in the time it will take you to read this sentence, the war in Iraq will have cost us $32,000 . Or a bit under $1....

It's primary day in Texas and I have an important decision to make: stick with the 3rd candidate I have supported during the primary sea...

This is not the least bit surprising, really. As it turns out, the Iraqi government has not been increasing spending for reconstruction as...

Pity the presidential candidates who must constantly multi-task by seizing the political issue du jour . While Condi is busy praising progre...

Chalk up one more group in Iraq who are who are facing tough times since the American-led invasion: gays and lesbians. And while that probab...

I'm old enough to remember when a billion dollars was a shitload of money. It was the stuff of corporate mergers and involved very impre...

We all know there's money to be made in times of war, but this is sick. On the fourth Sunday in July, John Lee Cockerham was here in his...

I'm not sure what happened on 9/11/01 but it was far more than an attack from terrorists. As we approach the 6th anniversary of this hor...

Memorial Day is a legal holiday observed annually on the last Monday in May in the United States, in honor of the nation’s armed services pe...

Of course, he'd bring this up while in Uruguay. There's got to be a few dozen in Congress who would love to slap the shit out of h...

At some point I should quit posting about this and just put a daily casualty figure in the sidebar. There's only so much a person can sa...

Aside from criticizing the 2006 casualty figure of 34,452 civilians killed as reported by the UN, the government is also upset at the mentio...

That is the title of an article in today's New York Times by David Leonhardt and it's quite interesting. I recently suggested that ...

Perhaps the "Iraqi government" should reconsider the death penalty after Saddam Hussein's half brother was decapitated as a r...