I’ll cut to the chase so the disinterested can cut and run without wasting their time: Wild at Heart is a book, perhaps the book, for Christian men who sense that something is missing from their lives, their relationships with their wives and children, their church, and/or their relationship with God. Still with me? Good. Now, be honest: Do…
Author: marc
Marc is a software developer, writer, and part-time political know-it-all who currently resides in Texas in the good ol' U.S.A.
Feinstein Caves on Telco Immunity
So, will the Democrats’ plan to hold out on this issue follow suit? Probably. Their resistance never did make any sense. Why hold corporations hostage over a Bush administration power play? Petulance? The news: Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Thursday that she favors legal immunity for telecommunications companies that allegedly shared millions of customers’ telephone and…
Joe Lieberman is Awesome!
As Michael said earlier, there are some really good blogs on the list of the 2007 Web Logs award that are worth checking out. I was browsing the contentions blog at Commentary Magazine and happened upon this gem by John Podhoretz and his follow-up about a speech given by Joe Lieberman yesterday. Wow. I don’t…
Greenwald on Dems’ Mukasey Vote
Glen Greenwald laid into Senate Democrats for confirming Michael Mukasey’s nomination as Attorney General: Every time Congressional Democrats failed this year to stop the Bush administration (i.e., every time they "tried"), the excuse they gave was that they "need 60 votes in the Senate" in order to get anything done. … Beyond that, four Senate…
Obama Contrasts Himself Against Clinton
Here’s part of the transcript from his interview with Linda Douglass of NationalJournal.com: Q: But do you think that voters should be concerned about whether she’s telling the truth? Obama: I think that the voters should be concerned that she is running the textbook, classic Washington campaign, which is to avoid giving clear answers and…
Torture, the Litmus Test
There have been several anti-torture articles today, most in opposition to the practice. I’m glad of that – no one should want to have to inflict pain and suffering on another human being. But how important is the debate and/or the practice? At the LA Times, Rosa Brooks calls torture “the new abortion” for the…
Torture
The principle is whether western security services should, in their duty to protect to people of the countries they serve, torture captured enemies. The lines of debate are if torture should ever be allowed and, if so, in what circumstances? If it is ever to be allowed, there’s the question of what techniques can be…
Bhutto Calls Out Musharraf
In a NY Times editorial, Benazir Bhutto says that Pervez Musharraf’s declaration of martial law "will be remembered as the blackest day in the history of Pakistan." Let’s hope that is true. But there may be blacker days still to come. More: Opposition party members, lawyers, judges, human rights advocates and journalists have been rounded…
U.S. to Defy Putin re Missile Defense
Reuters reports that U.S. officials intend to move ahead with plans to locate a missile defense system in central Europe despite pointed protests made by Vladimir Putin of Russia. "We are continuing negotiations with those countries (Poland and the Czech Republic)," Daniel Fried, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, told a news conference in Baku. "We…
Refusing Medical Care
In the U.K., Emma Gough, a young Jehovah’s Witness woman recently died after refusing to accept a blood transfusion that could have saved her life: She had signed a form refusing blood transfusions, and her family would not overrule her. Couldn’t doctors have intervened? If they had, they may well have been charged with a…