I've been growing increasingly frustrated with the manufactured controversy of the Not-at-Ground Zero Not-Really-a-Mosque. But the right-wing nutjobs continually tell half-truths or outright lies about the Park51 community center project. Back in the late spring when the permitting process began there was no controversy over this. Then some of ( Read more... )

The subject line is from my userinfo. It explains why I'm not moving this journal ( Read more... )

Okay, I know this is a bit wanky of me, but forgive me, because I was raised by a teacher with a concentration in Reading and English ( Read more... )

So, for months the administration has stonewalled on providing a timetable for troop withdrawl from Iraq. "It would embolden the insurgents," they would say.

So they've announced the timetable for the beginning of the "draw-down" in the troop levels today.

I love the smell of hypocrisy at 6:30pm...it smells like...covering your ass!