I am one American who is concerned that John McCain thinks its no big deal to send American soldiers into a war that lasts ten thousand years.

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The problem with Republicans’ political ethics is highly contingent. Take the words of George W. Bush, for example. When he contemplates the other nations of the world, he declares an inflexible and unhelpful dichotomy: “either you’re with us, or you’re against us.” But when it comes to judging himself and his own […]

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Illinois Senator Barack Obama spoke yesterday on the Fall 2007 National Intelligence Estimate regarding Iran, which concluded that Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program far back in 2003:
It is absolutely clear that this administration and President Bush continues to not let facts get in the way of his ideology. And that’s been the problem […]

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The program provides the pollution tracking information to countries free of charge. If we follow the Republican mode of thinking, that’s dangerous socialism. If we follow a progressive way of thinking, however, we can see that the Europeans are using their space technology to take care of business, instead of snooping into people’s business.

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Two good antiwar reasons to elect a progressive President in 2008:
A. Pro-war politicians trying to convince Americans to support a new war against Iran say that Iran should be bombed because it’s a source of foreign fighters attacking Americans in Iraq. However, of 25,000 people captured by the United States in Iraq and […]

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Sometimes, the debate between war and peace is nuanced. Well-meaning people can have a genuine debate over the best way to achieve and sustain peace in the long term.
At other times, however, the debate between peace-loving Americans and enthusiasts for war isn’t nuanced at all. Sometimes, there’s a very clear-cut distinction between the […]

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When was the last time you saw hundreds of people protesting in the middle of the day in favor of war? I don’t know that I’ve ever seen such a thing. Anti-war protests of that sort happen all the time.
Just yesterday, huge numbers of high school students in Seattle, Tacoma and Minneapolis walked […]

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For the newspapers and TV channels, the finance reporters focus on the ups and downs of the Dow Jones Industrials Average, though most Americans work for a living, and don’t make their primary income through stock investments. Underlying this daily up and down is a persistent problem: Republicans and their right wing allies in […]

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Pop quiz: Is putting Major General George W. Weightman, the General who turned Walter Reed Army Medical Center into a pit of suffering and despair for recovering American soldiers, in charge of weapons of mass destruction
A. A good idea
B. A really, really, really bad idea
If you’re like most people, you chose B. […]

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In the 2004-2005 school year, the latest year the U.S. Census Bureau has information for, there were 75,200,000 public school students in the United States. The census bureau also found that, during that school year in the United States, it cost an average $8,701 per student per year to give a child a public […]

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