Category: News

Kerry Embraces Former Rival, Citing 'Courage and Conviction'. “I have chosen a man who understands and defends the values of America,” John Kerry told supporters in Pittsburgh this morning. By DAVID M. HALBFINGER and ADAM NAGOURNEY. [The New York Times > Home Page]

Bush Flunks Math – Logic. President Bush this holiday weekend is speaking before groups around the country flaunting his lack of capacity for math and logic. In Charleston, W. Va. President Bush is reported by the Toronto Star to have said that America is safer because Saddam Hussein is in a prison cell. This is… Continue reading Bush Flunks Math – Logic

Time. A slick promotional video from Zarqawi, Iraq's most prominate venture capitalist of violence. It could be entitled, “global guerrillas gone wild” given its raw footage of attacks. This video speaks of a danger more organized than the one viewed through the snippets of the intelligence and glimmers of insight the public previously seen. It… Continue reading Time

On this day in 1776 the United States of America, then a colony of Great Britain, declared its independence, starting the American Revolution, which is still going strong in 2004. [Scripting News]

Swaying Unhappy Ohio Voters Could Be a Key to the Presidency. Ohio has been a presidential bellwether for decades — and is perhaps the most closely watched swing state this year. By By JAMES DAO. [The New York Times > Home Page]

Doc points me to an interview with Joe Biden, with this interesting quote (read the entire interview if you have the time): BIDEN: The neocons are right: this is the first time stateless actors with no territory to protect, no interest in protecting individuals, capable of using modern technology, let alone nuclear weapons or weapons… Continue reading Doc

IHT. NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer warned Friday that Afghanistan and Iraq were doomed to be failed states if the United States and the international community did not find a way to work together to save them. [John Robb's Weblog]

William Lind. Another excellent post. …What Washington cannot understand is that the crumbling of Saudi Arabia is part of the war in Iraq, and that in Afghanistan as well. We still think of wars as delineated by state boundaries, because we still envision a world made up of states. Non-state forces (a better term is… Continue reading William Lind

Happy Independence Day, USA!

Of, By, and For. I've co-founded and am contributing to a web site and group blog, Of, By, and For, exploring politics-not-as-usual. We're using Civic Space as a platform, as is Joe Trippi's Change for America site. The common conviction is that there is an urgent need to change a political system is not working.… Continue reading Of, By, and For