Hypocrite McCain Straddles the Hagee Fence

John McCain wants John Hagee’s supporters and John Hagee’s money, but he doesn’t want to be tarred with the brush of John Hagee’s insane and hateful beliefs. While Barack Obama has denounced not only the insane statements of Jeremiah Wright, but Jeremiah Wright himself, John McCain continues to gutlessly straddle the fence on Hagee’s outrageous [...]

Religion and Mobs

Here’s a perfect example of religion run amok, when mobs are incited by religious fantasies to commit horrendous acts.
Kenya Mob Burns 15 Women to Death Over Witchcraft
In America, people cite the Bible in justifying their beating to death gay people. In Saudi Arabia, people quote the Koran in forcing women without the proper veils to [...]

Is It Diplomacy or Appeasement?

A story in The Jerusalem Post (linked in the Dredge Report) quotes Army Radio as reporting that the Bush Administration plans a military strike against Iran before the end of Bush’s Presidency. This is hardly news. Anyone who has been even partially conscious during the past couple of years knows that Bush has every intention [...]

Britain Removes Another Brick from the Wall of Privacy

The people of the UK must throw out the Labour Government soon before the petty tyrants of the Home Office turn Great Britain into Vladimir Putin’s Russia (and before they give any more ideas on shredding civil liberties to the Republicans in the United States). The BBC reports that the Home Office wants to create [...]

Buckley: A Giant Among the Ants of the Right

It may be a little late to write a tribute to William F. Buckley, Jr., but I was reading his Newsweek obituary by Evan Thomas this morning and was struck by the glaring differences between the intelligent and erudite conservatives of my youth and the troglodytes who pollute the airwaves and the blogosphere of today.
I [...]

McCain’s Wright is Wrong

Recently, I was eating dinner at a fast-food restaurant with a friend and discussing the campaign between Senators McCain and Obama. I was describing to my friend some of the outrageous things said by one of McCain’s most prominent supporters, the Rev. John Hagee, one of which was that New Orleans was destroyed because God [...]

Supporting the Troops

Republican backers of the quagmire in Iraq, including the party’s apparent nominee to succeed George W. Bush, have a reprehensible habit of equating support for the President’s policy with support for the troops and brand anyone who disagrees with the war, the conduct of the war, or the premise underlying the war as “not supporting [...]