Sarx

HE LEFT Is coming back to Reality-based cynicism in the area of Bushbama. IT’s nice and all, but no politician can provide meaningful hope if the hope is for meaningless, worldly ideas. Advent continues… there is a real hope.

EGARDLESS Of what one thinks of Mr Obama’s policies or what one thinks of those who hold strong opinions against same, can we stop calling him a “black president” please? He is half white as well. If he is not white, he is not black either. If he is one, he is equally the other. [...]

HE ONLY important part of the Public Healthcare debate is about to stop as White House Appears Ready To Drop ‘Public Option’. Bowing to Republican pressure and an uneasy public, President Obama’s administration signaled Sunday it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run insurance as part of a new [...]

EAR Pseudo-Lefties: I confess I had a smidge of hope for a brief moment. I let myself smile and even ate some delicious cake frosted with the Obama Logo. That was in November. Now, however, I once again see a moral equivalence between the stupid party and the evil party. And the dupes on either [...]

N TIME For Gay Pride Month, I trust Mr Obama’s continuation of illegal detention, his legal briefs in support of Defence of Marriage Act, and his reneging on Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell has disabused all but the most vitriolic of Democrats of the illusion that the President is anything more or less than another politician attempting to play [...]

ITHOUT Taking sides in the debate, I am terribly interested in how this plays out: Catholic, pro-life organizations call on Notre Dame to cancel Obama commencement address. Will Notre Dame side with the “keep Catholic teaching pure & (Republi)neocon!” uberfrum folks, or will Notre Dame opt for the Glory of Mammon and the desire to [...]

HILE I INTEND To avoid political blogging for Lent as per usual, I have to note that live blogging White House Meetings is a far cry from “the Vice President is Hidden in His Evil Lair and you can’t see him, ever“. Transparency, maybe, cheer-leading, certainly, pre-written script (post), probably, information overload too. But very [...]

ERE COME De new boss same as the old boss: “Candidate Obama ran on a platform that would reform the abuse of state secrets, but President Obama’s Justice Department has disappointingly reneged on this important civil liberties issue,” the ACLU’s executive director, Anthony Romero, said after the hearing. Now, let’s all ignore this little blip [...]

ER HOST Confesses to a growing sense of hope and yet, at the same time, a growing sense of dread. The former because President Obama seems to be doing just exactly all the sorts of things I would want done in the face of the outgoing Bush gang: freeing up information, making government transparent, returning [...]

CIENCE returns to the US! We will restore science to its rightful place… BRAVO! And so does morallism to the market, to the politics and goals of our country. What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them – that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so [...]