Karl Rove: How liberals lost their groove

Karl Rove is a name that strikes terror in the hearts of most liberals, and for good reason.

The man who was arguably central to the engineering of both victories for president George W. Bush has become somewhat of a mythical figure in both republican and democratic circles. But as far as Karl Rove himself is concerned, he has merely set foot on the threshold of what is to become a radical realignment of the political landscape in this country for many years to come.

Jimmy Carter: An endangered mind

It was like reading an exposition by Pee Wee Herman on the ‘Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle’.

There sat Jimmy Carter, regaling us with his searing commentary on the inadequacies of the current administration in serving the needs of the working man and managing a global war on terror. This is a man during whose tenure the country struggled under the heavy yoke of 70 % marginal tax rates and 16% inflation, while reeling in agony as student proxies of the new Iranian regime held 66 American diplomats hostage for 444 days; so much for caring for the working man and dealing effectively with terrorists.

Global Terrorism; The simmering war

There are many kinds of wars.  There are long wars and there are short wars. There are guerrilla wars, nuclear wars, civil wars, chemical wars; the list is long.

The War of Words: Terms of engagement

It is often said that whoever frames the debate wins the argument. But while I agree that good arguments are very much like splendid looking edifices, it is not mere aesthetics that makes them substantive, but rather the brick and the mortar of the edifice itself -namely the terms employed in building the argument- that gives them their formidable appeal. This is especially the case if those terms happen to be well aligned with the prevalent cultural anxieties.