Eugene Robinson – The Only Real Option: Leave Iraq Now – washingtonpost.com

Why can’t papa Bush just slap him up side his head? Where will this country be after two more years? Hell, everyone reading these posts know how I feel about

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From Marginal Revolution

 I find myself intrigued… I’d like to try this idea in Elizabeth, New Jersey Tyler Cowen How about cities without any traffic signs or lights?: European traffic planners are dreaming

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Broder: Hoping against hope for happy ending to Bush tenure | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle

This morning’s OP-ED from David Broder makes some interesting points. He has divided the Bush Presidency into four phases. I think he should have added a fifth.  In trying to gauge where

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Katrina’s Purgatory – New York Times

Excuses sound hollow when you’re trapped in a flimsy trailer. For Gulf Coast residents waiting for long-promised government housing assistance, patience has given way to anger, and anguish. What is

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OpinionJournal – Featured Article

It is nice to read something on the Op-Ed pages at the WSJ that I can agree with for a change. Looks like the new Senator from Virginia has a way with telling it

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Austin to rename bridge in honor of late governor | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle

She was the last of the Blue Governors from the Great State of Texas. Bush and Rove lied her out of office. Now the whole country knows what it’s like

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Where we are now…

Today’s emails brought the following: On their journey through the stages of grief, conservatives don’t yet seem to have gotten past denial. Republicans may have lost, conservatives argue, but only

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