If you’re a person of faith who is troubled by the death penalty, and if you supported George Bush’s recent Supreme Court appointment of Samuel Alito, then you need to know that you supported the continuation of the death penalty.Not as warm and fuzzy as you thought, these conservative judges, eh?Life is a lot more nuanced than always voting Republican.Alito upholds death penalty

Joe Biden and Chuck Hagel joined Wolf Blitzer on Late Edition yesterday and talked about Dick Cheney and the war. Hagel is taking a hard line against the rehtoric that is beinfg spwed by Cheney and Biden said:          Video -WMP Video -QTBIDEN:  No, I don’t want to respond to him. He’s at 20 […]Hagel and Biden on Cheney: Potted Plants and 20% of nothing.

See, this is the one (or three) inescapable fact about the war in Iraq. The situation will continue to get worse, US troops will continue to be attacked, and the American public will continue to lose confidence in the war effort. There is no way other than an outright victory to turn it around. And victory isn’t going to happen because Bush has already lost the war. No matter what stunts Bush pulls, things will get worse, and the American public will know it.Polls continue to worsen on Iraq

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Who would have thought that this issue could come back as an issue? What is disturbing is that the pro-commercial whaling efforts by Japan don’t even seem to match up with the Japanese people because they simply are not interested in eating whale meat. It is more an issue of some people within power who want to cash in from killing whales, but disguise their ambitions by cloaking their argument to clinging to a piece of their history that is as outdated as slaughtering buffalo one hundred years ago in America.I like Japan and the Japanese but if they really want to flash money around, they ought to continue spending it on many of the excellent development programs they have already started in some of the poorest countries of the world. I’ve stumbled upon many of these programs in remote corners of the world and they truly benefit some of those most in need. It’s sad to see that some removed from the real world people have hijacked Japanese government money and influence for this incredibly bad cause. They are targeting some very poor and needy countries such as Mali, Nicaragua not to mention a few greedy and short sighted governments and giving those countries a bad reputation.Let’s hope that the US and other countries can work together and turn the tide on this unfortunate change.US, UK, Australia, New Zealand to step up fight against whaling