Archive for April, 2007

Another Reason to Root for the Titans

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

I doubt a college football player will come along in my lifetime who will do more for the University of Texas football team than Vince Young did. Well over a year after the fact, I still am not over just how epic it was for Vince to lead my Longhorns ...

More and More Bureaucracy Under President Bush

Friday, April 20th, 2007

Dahlia Lithwick has written an article hosted at Salon that discusses Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday. Ms. Lithwick describes a particular chart that Senator Sheldon Whitehouse showed near the end of the testimony: ...The chart compares the Clinton protocol for appropriate contacts between ...

Too Much War To Manage

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Another one to file in the "truth is stranger than fiction" category: The White House wants to appoint a high-profile overseer to manage the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but has had trouble finding someone to take the job, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. At least three retired four-star generals approached ...

Lesson Learned From September 11

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

President Bush spoke to troops at Fort Irwin, California today about the Iraq war and the lesson we learned on September 11, 2001: In other words, this is a war in which, if we were to leave before the job is done, the enemy would follow us here. That's the lesson ...