Have you ever wondered why the word 'liberal' has developed into a naughty word these days?  Find out why at "Training the Beast" by Jason Galde.

as bush starts yet another speechifying sales job on iraq to the american people, let's reflect on reality and truth, commodities not in evidence in the current presidential administration... scot lehigh's boston globe editorial discusses the difference between "lying" and "misleading" and cites a valuable research document from the carnegie endowment for international peace..."

lies, lies and more lies...

murray waas, as usual, breaks some key information in an excellent article just released in the national journal online...

Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda, according to government records and current and former officials with firsthand knowledge of the matter.

Senator Russ Feingold has accused the Bush administration of "trying to drill their way out of the national energy crisis," the AP reports. His comment about the Bush administration hits the nail on the head. His constant, steady opposition to the ANWR bill is a big contrast to the moral decay of the Republican Party, whose members can't tell right from wrong.

The AP article notes that Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman made a campaign promise not to vote for the ANWR bill. However, now, he is waffling on the bill like a person who knows he is not supposed to lie, but who wants to do it anyway. Coleman is like the people who call Dr. Laura who waffle about cheating on their spouses or doing a headlong rush into a premarital sexual relationship or something of that nature.