The President took responsibility for the Federal Government's poor response time in New Orleans. Ok, manly thing to do. The bureaucratic malaise was awful. The Homeland Security Department was overwhelmed.
The President's solution?
Build more layers of bureaucracy. Ugh. Whatever happened to Reaganism? This is not good.
Hugh Hewitt asked the blogosphere to weigh in on the newly released John Roberts Documents, so I said: "Cool." Get your own box at www.radioblogger.com.
With the able assistance, alliteration intended, of the English Professor and Associate Anti Inquisitioner (Plus Mucho Mas) Miriam, I'm having a gander at the COI docs in Box 11. Really, get your own box.
Will keep you posted on progress.
In a not so shocking development: Iran is said to be smuggling arms into Iraq. Read the story in the UK's Guardian Newspaper
With neighbors like Iran and Syria, Iraq has little chance of developing into a full fledged democratic state. Two immediate questions come to mind:
1. How does the US draw down troops when the reasonable certainty exists that both Iraq and Syria will aggressively seek to destroy a fledgling government?
2. What role does the desire for religious hegemony play in this sordid mess?
From the files of: Why I fear the socialists more than inept Republicans.
The Independent Media Center hails Telesur - "Televisora del Sur (Television of the South), or Telesur, began broadcasting from Caracas on July 24, the day South American independence leader Sim?n Bol?var was born. Telesur was created by the Venezuelan government in association with the governments of Argentina, Cuba and Uruguay to provide a counterweight to corporate channels such as CNN and Univision." Read the full whitewash, I mean, Article. And someone in the back of the class pipes up with, "Hey, isn't a government like a powerful corporation with an army, or something?"
Go on, hate America. Burn a flag and sing "Down, down, USA." But siding with Hugo Chavez in the name of free expression and cultural liberty? Want to know the frightening part?
They really believe what they write...
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