Pat Robertson-- Nothing if Not Reliable
Pat Robertson can always be relied upon to be crazy and offensive:Conservative Christian evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson on Thursday linked Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke to God's "enmity...
View ArticleReconstructing Iraq-- Oh Nevermind
Remember back in 2003, right after President Bush declared victory in Iraq, how the political controversy of the moment was whether all of the fantastic reconstruction that would be occurring would be...
View ArticleThe South Side Gets Screwed! Citizen Chien Edition
In the second of our our continuing series covering instances where Chicago's South Side doesn't get a fair shake, we turn to the issue of dog parks-- those little patches of the Chicago public park...
View ArticleMaureen Dowd: Stupid, Insincere, and Ugly
Has there ever been a worse liberal pundit than Maureen Dowd? Any more shallow, smug, and harmful to liberal causes? Dowd condemns Gore and Kerry because "they allowed themselves to be painted as...
View ArticleThinking About Wal-Mart
Yesterday, I attended this excellent conference, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture and the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Chicago. I won’t summarize...
View ArticleLewinsky, Barnes
Why is it that President Bush and Fred Barnes can get away with doing the very same thing that got President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky in such trouble?I'm just asking.
View ArticleO'Reilly Tells Half the Story; Smears Vermont Judge
Bill O'Reilly has clamped his jaws like a pit bull onto the case of the Vermont judge who gave out a 60-day sentence to a man convicted of sexual assault on a young girl. O'Reilly shows no signs of...
View ArticlePromises Unfulfilled
Citizen Cain recommends this morning's Washington Post article by Spencer Hsu about the Bush administration's failure to deliver on its promises about rebuilding after hurricane Katrina. Read it....
View ArticleBush-Made Catastrophe
From Jenifer Moses's Washington Post op-ed today.though Congress passed a $29 billion aid package for the Gulf Coast region, it's being split between Mississippi and Louisiana, perhaps because, even...
View ArticleHamas: The Glass is Half Full
Fafnir points out the little-noticed bright side of Hamas: a "sensible fiscal policy" and "intriguing plans for health savings accounts." Fafblog? Yes. Fafblog!
View ArticleClimate Change: Why Government Scientists are Speaking Out
The New York Times today describes efforts by the Bush White House to silence NASA climate expert James Hansen and other government climate scientists, and the efforts of these scientists to fight back...
View ArticleClassy Dick Cheney
What a classy guy Dick Cheney is. Completely takes responsibility for shooting his friend in the face. Won’t hear of any suggestion that it was the victim’s fault. So Brave and so Manly that John...
View ArticleDebunking the Sexual Repression Theory of Terrorism
Andrew Sullivan approvingly links to an Ian Buruma article that attempts to resurrect one of the less persuasive theories about the origins of Islamist terrorism-- that sexual repression in Islamic...
View ArticleAutism-Mercury News
A couple of news items news to report on the autism-mercury front. First, a couple of bloggers seem to have figured out independently that contrary to someassertions, California Department of...
View ArticleHoward Fineman: A Tale of Two Politicians
Howard Fineman has recent articles discussing the possible Presidential prospects of Rudy Guiliani and Hillary Clinton. He doesn't have any news to report in either case, but the articles make for an...
View ArticleKinsley: Don't Make Me Sick!
I realize that I'm commenting on this late, but Michael Kinsley's Friday column on healthcare is a terrible disappointment. What atypically weak reasoning from one of Citizen Cain's faves.Kinsley...
View ArticleThird Anniversary
We should all pause to recognize the anniversary of this major event.
View ArticleA Sad Prose Poem from an Iraqi Blogger
Citizen Cain's favorite Iraqi blog, Healing Iraq, resumed regular posting about a month ago after a long hiatus. Zeyad, Healing Iraq's maitre de blog, had been extremely optimistic about the prospects...
View ArticleUntenable
The situation in Iraq keeps getting more untenable. The Washington Post reports that U.S. and Iraqi forces killed at least 16 members of a "terrorist cell" tied to Moqtada al Sadr. This cell, according...
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