The neocons, rove, bush, cheney, and this whole administration, have already been condemned, indicted and convicted in the court of public opinion.

Secrecy and security are not the same. On this point, Exhibit A for journalists here at The Post is the 1971 Pentagon Papers case.

What isn't new is a government trying to hide its activities from the public, and a press trying to find out what is being hidden.

The American experiment is an experiment in self -government. The Founders established Americans' right to govern themselves. Abuse of government power was their abiding concern. The Founders saw a free press as a tool to control the abuse of power, which is why they gave the press special protection in the First Amendment to the Constitution: "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom . . . of the press."

If they're stupid, I'll take their side anyday of the week over your smart, McJob people.

US troops are under enormous strain in Iraq. They cannot most often tell friend from foe. When they first arrived, they were encouraged to make friends with local Iraqis, but now often are told to keep to themselves, just because it isn't clear who the guerrillas are. They are apparently constantly taking mortar or sniping fire, most of it ineffectual and so never announced to the press. If they go out on the road, they are in substantial danger of being blown up. Few units haven't lost a dear friend and colleague. They are fighting for a local government that often seems not much to want them and clearly wishes them gone sooner rather than later (Maliki says at most 18 months). Some high ranking members of the government have been scathing about them. The Europeans see US troops in Iraq as a bigger threat to stability in the Middle East than is Iran. Some 60 percent of Americans think their being there was a mistake in the first place, which cannot be good for morale, which is slipping inside the military according to polls. They signed up to fight for their country and their country asked them to fight in Iraq, and in the military you do as you are told, so it is a raw deal for them to end up being so unappreciated when they are doing brave things every day. So I get it that they are frustrated. But, it just is very bad politics for them to sit around singing songs about killing Iraqis, and worse politics to videotape it.

Our Toronto, a right-wing monthly newspaper which focused on Toronto City Council. In the 2000s, Our Toronto Free Press evolved into the Canada Free Press, which is now published online only.

President George Bush has declared he will not tolerate Somalia becoming a Taliban-style Afghanistan.

Let's face the reality. American public wants terrorists dead and they want to win.

After all, what good is knowledge if you lack the vision to utilize it?

Most Americans including myself would not care less about other people dying out there.

"No normal human being wants to hear the truth. It is the passion of a small and aberrant minority of men, most of them pathological. They are hated for telling it while they live, and when they die they are swiftly forgotten." -H.L. Mencken

Why hasnt the Right ever pushed for a cross burning amendment?

The really sad part of it is that we will have to listen to slado and Jim tell us for two more years that we had our chance, but our side lost and thats why we hate bush and are so disappointed.

if you honestly believe that Clinton didnt draw just as much fire from "the radical Left"

simply remind myself that at one time glaciers covered most of Norht America and some how they melted without the internal combustion engine.

Dinasour bones are discovered in Montana and Canada. How do we think these cold blooded creatures survied our winters? Must have been warmer then.

and the belief that we can somehow control mother nature. We can't as Katrina, volcanoes, mud slides, forrest fires and all the other natuaral disasters teach us.

IMHO the earth is much bigger then any of us and we really can't harm it.

IMHO the earth is much bigger then any of us and we really can't harm it.

We can only harm the earth in terms of how it affects us. I guess if we launched every nuclear weapon in our arsenal we might set it back a few millions years but the earth works on a much bigger playing feild then your 100 years of possible existance my blogging freind.

Noticed you said nothing about earthquakes or volcanoes

Oscar...you amaze me with your confidence.

ppj - And of course, the radical strategy of preemptive war by your "uniter" (of the 35%)