Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Syrian troops might pull out of Lebanon in the next few months, as Lebanese protesters rallied in central Beirut on Tuesday demanding Syria get out of their country.

Modern liberalism, says Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel, has emptied the national narrative of its civic resources, putting religion outside the public square and creating a value-neutral "procedural republic." One of the old heroes of liberalism, John Dewey, said in 1897 that the practical problem of modern society is the maintenance of the spiritual values of civilization. Not much room in liberal thought for that now, or for what another liberal icon, Walter Lippmann, called the "public philosophy." The failure to perceive the importance of community has seriously wounded liberalism and undermined its core principles. So has the strong tendency to convert moral and social questions into issues of individual rights, usually constructed and then massaged by judges to place them beyond the reach of majorities and the normal democratic process.

Thanks to the "war on terror" after the Iraqi elections a Shiite coalition, that happens to have close links to Iran, is set to take power in Iraq. Now American officials have begun grilling top Iraqi Shiite politicians to try to gauge the extent of their relationship with neighboring Iran, a predominantly Shiite nation ruled by its clergy.

A cartogram is a map in which the sizes of states have been rescaled according to their population. The states are drawn with a size proportional to the number of their inhabitants, states with more people appearing larger than states with fewer, regardless of their actual area on the ground.

An excellent and Insightful article on QandO Blog about the real problem the democrats are faced with. I encourage any democrats reading this to take a look. It's very much in line with what I have been thinking now for...

Thomas Jefferson, from a letter he sent in 1798 after the passage of the Sedition Act: "A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore...

dodgeblogium listed some interesting stats received from The Political Junkie Handbook that compare Bush in 2000 vs. Bush in 2004... Bush 2000 / Bush 2004 African-Americans: 8% / 11% Whites: 54% / 58% Hispanic: 41% / 44% Married: 53% /...

928,303 people in oklahoma like the idea of taking advantage of desperate people. They also dont mind keeping the middle class down, weakening economic conditions, and raising the abortion rate.

I caught a post over at potatobiker.com and wanted to comment on it. She was mentioning three signs she saw. "Pray for our Nation! Vote for Morality!" "Will Your Vote Protect the Unborn?" "The right to vote is blood bought....

The Electoral Vote Predictor 2004 website has a map of the country showing who is ahead in the Electoral College, along with graphs, charts, movies, spreadsheets, commentary, and more...

I got an email out of the blue on Saturday. Normally unsolicited email is junk but this turned out to be interesting. It was the "Radical Middle Newsletter: Thoughtful Idealism, Informed Hope"...

Bush and Kerry both have problems with the facts at their meeting in Coral Gables
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These people are protestors like any other and I commend them like I do civil and honest protestors on all sides of the issues. I selected them to blog about because, these people are very clever, and very smart, and I think you will find what they are doing interesting at the very least.

Is the most embarrassing thing for women to find another woman wearing the same dress at a formal party? How about at a nationally televised presidential debate when you are the first lady and the wife of the opposing candidate?

Kerry Denies Owning Assault Rifle He Said He Owned. Bait and Switch Reminiscent of Now Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry’s Play On Oklahoma Green Party Voters.

Is Dielbold for apes what Skynet is for robots. hehe One more bad report on the worthless Diebold touch-screen voting machines which, according to this article at the current time, will be used in more than 30 states. Fox...

From The Willamette Weekly: Even as John Kerry struggles to establish national-security credentials nationally, an exclusive WW straw poll shows his campaign dominating one skeptical, warlike demographic: Klingons....

Well I am going to MAX 2004 this year as I do every year. I really like this conference. Anybody who is a web developer and/or designer should go and check it out. This year however it’s in New Orleans...

Hot off the press!!! Being assaulted by the opposing political candidates supporters at their own rally 3 times in 8 years…is considered suspicious. The Times-Patriot commented on Phil Parlock’s recent visit to the Tri-State Airport in Huntington, W.Va., with three...