Monday, April 16, 2007

Bush's Blackwater, an armed and deadly mercenary Christian army | Capitol Hill Blue

Our Christian army in Iraq. Still believe that the US is a "secular" democracy?

"This secretive army is said to have as many as 20,000 mercenaries trained by a company started by a Christain fundamentalist fighting and killing in Iraq."

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Good programs vs. bad apples - The Boston Globe

This article creates a really nice linguistic meme for how the Democrats should appoach government social programs:

Society rightly wants to improve the chances of people who have drawn a bad ticket in life's lottery ("bad draws"), yet the government often spends substantial resources on the wrong people. We need to avoid "bad bets" and remove the "bad apples," so our dollars go further and better serve those who will benefit the most.