Posts from ‘April, 2005’

Going by what CNN, MSNBC and Fox News presented as the day’s news, you’d think this country was not at war in Iraq, not subject to terrorist attack, not having serious economic problems, not piling up staggering budget deficits, not getting its clock cleaned by trading “partners,” not plagued with crime and not governed by [...]

The Army sergeant who took it upon himself to launch a deadly wee-hours attack on his comrades while in Kuwait in 2003 will be put to death.
A 15-member military jury deliberated seven hours before sentencing Sgt. Hasan Akbar to die for his crime, according to an Associated Press story. Jurors were not swayed by [...]

Those penalties are huge, it’s true. But they don’t arrive at anything like justice for the injured parties or for society, which includes so many millions who keep greed in check, who consider the impact of their words and deeds on others and act accordingly.

Seeing as how Americans are sending their sons, daughters, wives, husbands, etc., to fight and die in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, you’d think the Bush administration would figure it owed them full, honest numbers about terrorist attacks. Just the fact Americans are footing a bill — virtually all of it — of $5 billion to [...]

Because he enjoyed a 3.5-million-vote margin, won a key state and so locked up the electoral edge in last November’s election, President George W. Bush deduced the people had given him a mandate.
Not for the first time, Bush got it wrong. Except for a modest bounce around the time of elections in Iraq, [...]

Quote: “Demanding courts enforce one set of religious beliefs and claiming any who dare oppose that are against ‘faith’ is bad theology and bad democracy. . . “

What’s wrong with this picture? On Sunday, Cheney was face to face with the potentate in charge of one of the world’s biggest exporters of oil — before the vice president’s supposed boss got to talk to the guy.

Here’s a news item that should have the National Rifle Association standing tall in a courtroom, defending a University of California fraternity’s God-given right to use BB guns to ascertain a pledge’s worthiness for membership.
Berkeley campus officials — obviously anti-Second Amendment liberals — had the unmitigated nerve to suspend — actually suspend — Pi [...]

Honda has been selling its natural-gas-powered Civic GX sedan to fleet buyers in California for seven years. Now, the exceptionally clean-running model is being offered to individual consumers.
That’s good news for all drivers everywhere. The more people who make the move to natural-gas-powered vehicles, the better.
A news story reports the car has a [...]

Here in the U.S., on the other side of the world, it’s hard to know who and what to believe about the situation in Iraq. Two things we came across this weekend illustrate the problem.