A bit of a diversion from politics or current events today, but I was motivated to giving this some thought, about determinism versus free well. I suppose actually, though, depending whichever way you lean on this, it might explain a lot about our state of affairs. READ FULL POST

You know it’s bad when the “Party of No” gets all squirmy about one of their own, a fellow-Republican, demonstrating just why the label. Senator Jim Bunning from Kentucky flustered even his partisan peers by digging in his heels to not let pass emergency legislation extending unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless still out of work. READ FULL POST

Back in 2005, then-Senator Barack Obama had this to say opposing The Patriot Act when it came up then for reauthorization: “We do not have to settle for a Patriot Act that sacrifices our liberties or our safety. We can have one that secures both.” READ FULL POST

Most folks have their own way of thinking about any one thing, which is all right, even when I might disagree with whatever their say-so is on the matter. On the other hand, I am pretty intolerant when the “thinking” part of concluding an opinion plays little or no role at all, rather pigheaded judgment passed without reason or common sense. READ FULL POST

You might think the George W. Bush administration’s hijacked Justice Department is still under appointment, what with the final word coming down from there this past Friday about Bush’s former Department attorneys John Yoo and Jay Bybee. READ FULL POST

Hey, it’s CPAC 2010 today… and tomorrow and the next day after that. Three full days of Conservative Political Action Conference kerfuffle, mostly talking over how to save freedom from or for or on this or that or the other; the usual docket with the usual suspects present and accounted for. READ FULL POST

I hate this guy, Pastor Steven Anderson. I know what you’re thinking, that I mean I don’t like what he stands for. No, I hate the person. And I don’t mean I just don’t like his beliefs, either. I mean I really hate him and his dissing the president. READ FULL POST

I find a lot of things funny, but I don’t usually really laugh about them; even my online LOLs are fake more often than not, I’ll admit. But honestly, who can possibly resist, at the very least, to giggle here? READ FULL POST

Benjamin Netanyahu is a bratty little shit. Despite earlier agreeing to stop Israel’s land-grab in the West Bank for awhile (giving in to some uncommon U.S. pressure) as a good will gesture toward talking peace again with the Palestinians, the Prime Minister last month doggedly made clear that he has every intention, instead, to keep on building and staying there forever. READ FULL POST

As if being subjected to last night’s commercial inanity wasn’t enough of an affront to intelligence, apparently non-stop analysis and commentary about it have been the order of the day for today. READ FULL POST