Do we really need this? It’s a strange issue that’s resurfaced lately. As far as I know, no reputable historian believes the Ottoman empire didn’t commit genocide against the Armenians. Seeing as it has no bearing on current events and will antagonize an ally we’ll probably need in the future (unless the government is taken [...]

I thought it was burkas we were against? Now head scarves are the affront to feminism? When did that change occur?

I realize it’s quite noteworthy, but this whole thing about Stark seems kinda funny. Oh my (non-)god, we found one! Take to the streets and celebrate, godless horde!
I suppose this will trigger lots of entertaining hate mail for him. Assuming people pay attention to the Secular Coalition, that is.
UPDATE: Is it odd that I seem [...]

Ok then.

This is absolutely hilarious. It’s amazing how certain ideas start to look good after getting your ass handed to you in an election, isn’t it? A couple years ago the Republicans blew off the idea. Now some of them think it’s a great idea.
Even worse, the Democrats aren’t even in power yet. It took [...]

The House GOP leadership seems to have been caught covering up a sex scandal involving kids. Sick.
Shane over at LitW notes Rehberg voting for an absolutely awful bill. How ridiculous this bill is is hard to overstate. The bill forbids the collection of attorney’s fees upon a successful suit involving the establishment clause of the [...]

The Secular Coalition has released their ratings of members of Congress, as interest groups are wont to do. Out of 100, Baucus gets a 90, Burns gets a 0, and Rehberg gets a 0.
It’s not the greatest rating, though the House scorecard has a much wider variety of issues than the Senate version, which consists [...]

From the MT GOP E-brief:
In Their Latest Ad, The Montana Democrat Party Attacks Senator Burns For Accepting Money >From The Oil And Gas Industry. “Burns took $490,000 from the big oil and gas industry, then gave them billions in tax breaks.”(Montana Democratic Party, “Not Alone” Ad Backup, montanademocrats.org/news/…, Accessed July 14, 2006)
But fail to mention [...]

I’ve haven’t had much to say about this. And I haven’t been paying much attention to the issue. After arguing with Budge over a fairly insignificant side argument about government impact on the Internet, I became a little more interested.
There are a couple issues here, for me. One is the effect on the sort of [...]

I can actually say something nice today. We finally got al-Zarqawi. And only two years later than we should have. Better late than never, I guess. Of course, it cost us who knows how many lives, but still.
Ok, that wasn’t very nice. Moving on, the estate tax repeal failed in the Senate. It and the [...]