Two years ago, when the Bush White House was secretly contemplating the sweeping politicization of the Justice Department’s prosecutors, such questions would have seemed out of line, impertinent, even crazy. Today they seem to be frighteningly on target. If the lies that produced the Iraq War can be considered a soft form of presidential authoritarianism abroad, then should we consider Bush’s perversion of the government’s prosecutorial power at home an equally dangerous form of tyranny? Following Karl Rove’s footsteps will help the nation understand the answer. Expect the worst.
Immoral no more
The chairman of the Joint Chief’s of Staff, Marine Corps General Peter Pace thinks homosexuality is immoral. Fair enough, everyone is entitled to his or her opinion, even if it is a bit old-fashioned. And adultery? That’s immoral too. The general did not offer a hint as to his thinking on sex between unmarried individuals. But we suspect he might take a dim view of that as well. Faced with the prospect of so much immorality among the nearly two million troops under his command, we have a suggestion that just might elevate the moral tone of our armed forces. Since the military has its own set of laws called the Uniform Code of Military Conduct, we suggest the armed services take a bold step and legalize gay marriage. With as many as 65,000 gays and lesbians now serving in uniform, it would give those soldiers, sailors, airmen, and airwomen, not to mention marines, a chance to do the decent thing by getting hitched. It might create another set of problems by increasing the pool of potential adulterers, but nobody said that life was easy. The military is justly proud of its record as a social trailblazer. Relatively speaking, it is more racially integrated and gender diverse than even the most politically correct elite universities. So why not join the state of Massachusetts and blaze another trail? Military gay marriage. Remember, you read it here first.
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- Republican dirty tricks
Late last month, readers of the conservative web site NewsMax discovered this juicy tidbit in a column by Ronald Kessler: “In the past week, Karl Rove has been promising Republican insiders an ‘October surprise’ to help win the November congressional elections.”
- Karl lets his mind rove
“Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that President Bush’s chief political strategist Karl Rove ‘spends a lot of time obsessing about me.’ ” — AP, February 27, 2006
- Mod on the move
The Brown University class being taught this semester by Lincoln Chafee, the Republican US senator-turned-independent supporter of Barack Obama, has an up-to-the-moment title: “Whither America.”
- Wish list
[1] An MBTA Red Line station without a broken escalator. [2] Someone in the White House who at least pretends we’re still looking for Osama.
- California’s shame
The politics of division as practiced by lame-duck president George W. Bush at the connivance of his onetime Svengali Karl Rove are not dead.
- Say it ain’t so, Cindy Sheehan
The best place to observe the masochistic tendencies of the American left these days is in San Francisco.
- Is the bloom off the Turd?
Karl Rove was in trouble. Or so it seemed just a few days ago, when the Man Liberals Love to Hate trekked to New Hampshire to address the state’s GOP.
- Worst in breed: Newsmakers
Who are the unsexiest newsmaking men of 2007?
- On the national affront
Where does one begin to recap 12 months of such willful self-parody?
- The “I” word
Greg Mitchell had a very nice piece in the trade magazine Editor & Publisher about how our mainstream media — an absolute disgrace throughout the Bush administration — is avoiding using the word “impeachment” concerning the Boy in the Bubble’s affronts to our freedom and global image.
- Keep the Internet free and open to all
The Internet may not be free for much longer. The Broadband, "God Save the Internet" (mp3) "The Death of the Internet." Commentary by COANews.org Support the Internet Freedom Preservation Act? Email your senator.
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