Tête-à-Tête-Tête

… as a talking point and distraction. Now, watch as the splurge stops working.
Ok - that was one reason for the decreased violence in the last year (like all the way down to 2006 levels!). Another was the Mehdi cease-fire with U.S. & Iraqi troops, which will expire before too long - [...]

The reason I rarely post about stuff like this is that so many people write about these things with the attitude that they should justify a show-down at high noon. That because of these things, a hard-line approach, with the tacit hope for military aggression, is eminently justified. I don’t wish to be [...]

Google Earth Maps Darfur Crisis. (Doesn’t work with Google Maps - you have to download Google Earth.

I notice a front page post on Red State from U.S. Representative Thaddeus McCotter, lamenting the lack of passion about last year’s bogey-man.
Let me just say that I don’t have a strong position on trade relations with communist and other oppressive governments. I strongly disagree with embargoes or long-term sanctions against entire nations. [...]

Wait to see if it sticks, but I think Gov. Richardson well deserves the love-fest he is getting right about now.

DarfurScores.org has bought themselves a blogad - money well spent if you ask me. But, in case you haven’t clickied on their ad, it’s worth checking out.
Tennessee Overall rated “C”.
Part of that was outgoing Senator Bill Frist, who earned a ‘B’. Not bad - but it’s embarrassing that our ultra-conservative majority leader [...]