"Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country, I hold it as honorable to take a firm and decided part and as immoral to pursue a middle line, as between the parties of honest men and rogues, into which every country is divided."

--Thomas Jefferson

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This isn’t Viet Nam.

Monday, October 1st, 2007

I’ve had the great good fortune to grow up and live through the last half of the 20th century and now part of the 21st.
That means that I’ve seen, and taken part in the discussion about, both Vietnam and present day Iraq. I participated in neither, in the sense of being part of the U.S. […]

Here’s why it’s important.

Monday, August 6th, 2007

I came across a Virginia-based website that expressed an opinion I’ve heard before with regard to warrantless wiretaps and wasn’t able to clearly refute.
In essence, the argument goes…
I don’t care if the government listens to my phone calls or reads where I go on the internet. I personally don’t have anything to hide. And […]

Blame the bloggers.

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Washington Post Columnist Jim Hoagland has apparently decided that those who write blogs and have the temerity to criticize the mainstream media are somehow in the same league with sports cheats and terrorists who build roadside bombs. About bloggers in particular, he says:
This era’s miniaturization of power in the hands of the individual favors destructive […]