Just in case anyone might have missed it, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just issued a report (“a comprehensive and rigorous picture of the global present state of knowledge of climate change”) on the causes and consequences of … Continue reading →

I have been outrageously busy for the last couple of weeks so I have not been keeping up with the news but, last night, I finally caught up with my Jim Lehrer’s New Hour watching and…it was disturbing. One of … Continue reading →

He is also very good when he is serious as he is in his occasional op-ed pieces that he writes for The Guardian. Like this one. Early this year the Bush administration is to ask Congress to approve an additional … Continue reading →

I thought this guy was me when I first read the subtitle of his blog. But I am not a mac-user. His criticism of Sullivan is similar to mine though. Sullivan champions an idealized form of conservatism that is so … Continue reading →

From the Letters page of The New York Times: History will say, with unforgiving clarity, that you, Mr. President, started a war without justification, without world support, without understanding and without adequate planning, resulting in the deaths so far of … Continue reading →

Help save the youth of America Help save the youth of the world Help save the boys in uniform Their mothers and their faithful girls Listen to the voice of the soldier Down in the killing zone Talking about the … Continue reading →

The New Republic has the answer: Republicans, on the other hand, pretty much never change. They’re like a Terminator machine (and unlike the governor who played the Terminator and who has dramatically recast his ideology). Crush them in a machine … Continue reading →

Actually, the time for a diplomatic solution was four years ago when it was more likely to succeed but there is still a chance for it to work. The New Republic says so too. More importantly, the elections may terrify … Continue reading →

“Somehow it seeped in their conscious that my attitude was just simply stay the course. Stay the course means let’s get the job done, but it doesn’t mean staying stuck on a strategy or tactics that may not be working. … Continue reading →

The National Review has hosted an excellent debate about the future of Iraq – excellent, because it is one of the few forums where the debaters do not descend into infantile name-calling. I wonder if there really are people who … Continue reading →