A very interesting and well-reasoned article about political correctness and the misuses of that term -- here focused on a university's debate about a Native American mascot. Can we dismiss criticism by calling it "political correctness" -- even if the argument may make sense? Butterflies and Wheels Article: “Chief” Objections: Racism, Rhetoric and Native American Mascots on College Campuses

How can anyone really believe that this Administration didn't encourage torture in Iraq and Guantanamo?

The New Yorker: Outsourcing Terror: >>Five days after Al Qaeda's attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Vice-President Dick Cheney, reflecting the new outlook, argued, on "Meet the Press," that the government needed to "work through, sort of, the dark side." Cheney went on, "A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies, if we're going to be successful. That's the world these folks operate in. And so it's going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal, basically, to achieve our objective."<<

"The Bush Administration is intellectually dead. To the extent that it's being propped up by a tax-payer-funded life support system, it's time to pull the plug."