Unqualified Offerings

By Mona
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Yesterday I wrote here at UO about the (wildly successful) efforts to raise funds to target House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and other Dems who may as well be Bush-Authoritarian, corporatist Republicans when it comes to telecom amnesty and legalizing warrantless surveillance.
The Internet is making itself felt and heard via both citizen advocacy [...]

By Thoreau
The LA Times has a nice profile of “Curveball”, the guy who claimed to have worked on the Iraqi WMD program. His misinformation was part of the packet of lies used to launch the clusterfuck we call “Operation Iraqi Freedom”, even though some in the CIA considered him unreliable. Reading the profile, [...]

By Thoreau
A large monopoly [EDIT:  near monopoly, can't forget the ACT] (in an industry closely related to my own) released a new product in 2005. The new product ostensibly answers the objections of critics (leave aside for now whether those objections were rooted in politics, sound science, or some mix) but was also more [...]

By Thoreau
I’ve been having a discussion with some other libertarians about oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.  Believe it or not, this is a harder problem than you might think for us libertarians.  Yes, yes, for some libertarians it’s quite simple: Sell to the highest bidder (presumably an oil company) and let the [...]

Obviously, in any compromise, there are compromises.

Condoleezza Rice.
Some would say this counts as a genuine advance in the Bush Administration understanding of human relations. I think, rather, that they’ve always known this truth, which is why they tried to avoid compromise unless desperate.