Unqualified Offerings

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Much better than that sounds.
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Arthur Silber asks, anent Jim Webb:
Are politicians born this stupid, or do they study it? Is there a Dumbitude Institute for Future Leaders of America somewhere that I don’t know about?
Politicians spend most of their time fundraising. Thus, they don’t know jack about shit. If Congress were housed in Minnesota, they’d be lucky not to [...]

I admit to some surprise that “my” senior Senator, Barbara Mikulski, voted for the East Germany Restoration Act. It lasted about five seconds. Then I remembered: Oh yeah, Fort Meade. Yes, even domestic surveillance legislation is pork-barrel spending for somebody. But then, Fort Meade’s own Congressman, Dutch Ruppersberger, voted Nay in the House. So there [...]

Wow. Traffic sucked!
The Atlantic off Hatteras Island was fantastic. I didn’t see a jellyfish all week. I wish I had bothered to go to the Sound side a little more, for the sake of the swimming possibilities. As to the Outer Banks themselves, they are peculiarly beautiful, which means, if you’re in the wrong mood, [...]

By Thoreau
I’m going to put the topic aside for a few days after this, because it’s eating me up.  But I offer (without qualification) two things that the Democrats should keep in mind:
1) The most important point in this debate was written a long time ago:
The right of the people to be secure in their [...]

By Thoreau
I know it isn’t exactly news that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was tortured, but this morning’s Washington Post contains yet another report on his torture, including this sickening detail:
Mohammed’s captors also told him shortly after his arrest in March 2003: “We’re not going to kill you. But we’re going to take you to the very [...]