Pat Robertson’s is receiving well deserved if still insufficient condemnation for saying the Haitian earthquake may be a “blessing in disguise” and is the result of a “pact with the devil” Haitians made long ago to drive out French slave masters.  (After all, BLACK people could not possibly defeat White people without Satanic help.) As…

The cost of one combat soldier in Afghanistan or Iraq is currently reliably estimated at about $775,000 per year.  Needless to say that doesn’t go to the guy on the ground.    The cost of a special election to fill Hawaii’s soon-to-be-vacated Congressional seat when incumbent Neil Ambercrombie steps down to run for governor, is almost…

I was talking with my friend Jim about the strange new Republican effort to rewrite history: that no terrorist attacks took place during George Bush’s presidency.  Diana Perino, Mary Matalin,  and now “Mr. 9/11” Rudy Guiliani have said it.  Even setting 9/11 aside there have been at least three terrorist attacks, the anthrax attacks, the shoe bomber, and…

UPDATE below. The strutting masculinity, steely eyed attention to a brutal reality, and courage under fire that the Republicans and culture warriors in general like to project is showing itself as the posturing of craven bullies.  As it has always been.  The failed attempt to bring down an airline by the undie bomber was thwarted…

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