Author: Cassandra

Dave Schuler poses an interesting question: As I’ve said before, I don’t believe that there’s a right to healthcare nor have I seen a coherent argument made that it is, merely a claim. However, bear with me. Is is possible to make a coherent argument that government-provided healthcare is a moral obligation but that our […]

After all the fulmination we heard over the last 8 years about Executive overreach and the importance of respecting the Constitution, it seems supremely ironic to see two “Constitutional scholars” blithely preparing to eviscerate the founding document of our Republic with the enthusiastic assistance of public servants elected by the 50 states: President Obama has […]

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. – Plato Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical. If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you […]

The nerve of these folks – shielding some wingnut just so he could criticize the President of the United States without disclosing his identity! … the right of scared Bush officials to participate in public debates without being identified is hardly some noble journalistic value — former Bush officials have not exactly been shy about […]

…are we now going to be treated to a reprise of the infamous “War is not the answer – for every terrorist we kill, we create 10 more who hate us!!!!” school of international relations? A Pakistani Taliban militant leader has claimed responsibility for the attack on a U.S. immigration center in New York state […]

Congress seems determined to dispense with our freedoms. And to think these are the folks who called Bush a fascist: Steve Aquino at Mother Jones asks, “Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency? Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so.” I’ve […]

In November of 2008 a charismatic and gifted politician with little or no executive experience was elevated to what is arguably the world’s most difficult and powerful position. Both historically and statistically speaking, Obama’s victory was remarkable: Since the Civil War, 49 men have won a major-party presidential nomination. Only three of these nominees were […]

I am still trying to decide what I think about this situation: A judge in Wake County said three Raleigh children need to switch from home school to public school. Judge Ned Mangum is presiding over divorce proceeding of the children’s parents, Thomas and Venessa Mills. Venessa Mills was in the fourth year of home […]

File under Things I Could Happily Lived The Rest of My Life Without Thinking About: One night, New York Times columnist Judith Warner had a dream about the president taking a shower in her house. Then a friend of hers confided that she’d had an Obama dream, too. So, Warner “launched an e-mail inquiry” to […]

Listening to the breathless media coverage of The One recently, you’d think this was the first time a sitting President had ever reached across the aisle to his opponents. NPR even gets a former Republican to bash George Bush so they don’t have to. So good for the street cred: All that praise for the […]

“Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency,” – Barack Obama With the 44th President of these United States safely O-naugurated, the foul miasma of fear and secrecy that hung over Capitol Hill for so long has finally begun to lift, ushering in a glorious New Age of transparency and […]

We bloggers like to bash the mainstream media, and often our ire is justified by the media’s persistent and deliberate refusal to hold themselves accountable to their own stated standards of professional conduct. Such behavior becomes particularly egregious when professional journalists tout the supposedly sacred trust reposed in them by the reading public to act […]

L’Audace! Le Outrage! The Editorial Staff have never been a huge fan of Patrick Fitzgerald. During the L’Affair Plame years the intrepid special prosecutor kept us all glued to our seats with inflammatory rhetoric about the need to investigate a non-crime whose perpetrator was known from the outset. Such conduct rightly outraged conservatives; however, media […]