A King For Iraq?
A somewhat bizarre op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal today by Bernard Lewis and James Woolsey says, in essence, that we could just dust off Iraq's 1925 Constitution, since it has a lot of good...
View ArticleLibertarians and Military for the Dems?
The thread on whether and how the Dems should appeal to communities of faith was interesting. Two other possible groups who might vote Dem in '04 are Libertarians See here:...
View ArticleBay Area NDN Conference
Taking up Kos' offer, I attended most of the New Democrat Network Conference on Friday. (Missed the economic breakfast discussion and Gavin Newsom.) Kos was there, of course, and several Kossaks. The...
View ArticleA Bold New Idea For The Dems
In a comment to a diary entry a few days ago I said that the Dem candidate needs to present a bold, hopeful, positive idea or theme that would (1) galvanize independent as well as Dem voters; (2)...
View ArticleAre Israelis Training US Special Ops?
Juan Cole links to a Guardian article that says that Israelis are in Ft Bragg training US military Special ops on "terror" fighting tactics, which explains all the recent house razings, arrest of...
View ArticleDevelopments in Iraq
Juan Cole at http://www.juancole.com reports on some interesting developments in Iraq, particularly new efforts of Ayatollah Sistani to undermine the Interim Gov't and strengthen his call for...
View ArticleA Positive Vision
For weeks I have been saying the Dem Candidate needs a positive vision for the country. Not a small-minded DLC vision of school uniforms and more no-child-left-behind, but a vision with big themes....
View ArticlePlame Alert
The story is here. http://www.insightmag.com/news/2004/02/17/National/Cheneys.Staff.Focus.Of.Probe-598606.shtml UPI is reporting that the FBI has "hard evidence" on two of Cheney's staffers in the...
View ArticleThe Real Question: Would We Be Safer If . . . . .
Bush often poses the question, "Aren't we safer now that Saddam is out of power?" But this is not the real question, and we should not accept his framing of the issue. The real question is one of...
View ArticleYour chance to strike out at a corporate coup!
Humboldt County, California, is home to some of the most beautiful redwoods in California. It is also home to several timber companies. Last year, after decades of good old boy District Attorneys in...
View ArticleWhat should Kerry propose we do in Iraq?
In today's WSJ there is a column by John Harwood relating the views of retired General William E. Odom, who was Reagan's NSA director, served on Carter's NSC, is a conservative and is now professor at...
View ArticleAshcroft goes too far even for Bush?
Josh Marshall has an interesting post from the late press briefing today. http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com It seems that after his appearance before the 9/11 Commission at which he attacked...
View ArticleAre events overtaking Kerry on Iraq?
A week or two ago I wrote in a diary that Kerry should begin to lay the groundwork for proposing a withdrawal from Iraq by saying that he initially supported Bush, and gave him the benefit of the...
View ArticleChalabi and Iran
There really isn't enough information out on the emerging story that Ahmed Chalabi was giving information to the Iranians, and that his "information collection program" was run out of Teheran. see...
View ArticleHow do we take back our party and country?
Over the course of this campaign season we have had many threads and arguments over how to get a more progressive Democratic Party and how to retake the Congress. We have quarreled over whether to...
View ArticleWill We Leave Iraq by Year's End?
Yesterday I was roundly criticized for suggesting that Iraq would be "behind us" by the 2006 elections. Obviously it will still be an "issue", since even Vietnam is still an issue after 30 years....
View ArticleBusting the Myths: Why Social Security Is A Good Deal For Everyone
In Newsie's excellent diary yesterday two young people commented toward the end that they didn't understand why we were so exercised about saving Social Security since it was obviously such a bad deal....
View ArticleWatching the Dems Take the House: A Guide
The first post in this series at The Next Hurrah came on June 17, 2005, when few thought the Dems could take the House. Now, it is hard to imagine how the Dems can fail to win 15 seats, and my...
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