Karmic Knowledge

John McCain, long considered to be the frontrunner for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination, is suffering a bit of a setback after President Bush’s announcement last week that he would be sending 20,000 additional troops into Iraq, a plan now commonly referred to as the McCain Doctrine. The Boston Herald reports today that new polling [...]

While President Bush may claim to still be making up his mind about how best to proceed in the war in Iraq, the recent shifts in military command and the changes and additions to the White House legal staff seem to say otherwise. It is expected that Bush will announce plans to increase troop levels [...]

The White House today announced the resignation of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton. Bolton was given a recess appointment to the post by President Bush on August 1, 2005 after the Senate refused to confirm the original nomination. That appointment, which occurred during a Mercury retrograde cycle, is set to expire when [...]

Less than 12 hours after the clock struck midnight, ending one of the most exciting midterm elections in recent history, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has indicated that he will resign his post. If you have followed my previous posts on Donald Rumsfeld and the karma in his natal chart, you may have noted that [...]

I never thought I’d see the day when Al Franken and David Brooks were both talking up the same political candidate. Yet it happened. The day was October 19th. A daily reader of the NY Times Op-ed pages, I often skip over or just skim David Brooks’ columns. But the title of his Thursday piece, [...]

(Click chart for larger image.) Truthdig today published an in-depth analysis of Donald Rumsfeld and his doctrine for handling the Iraq War. Author Stan Goff, a 26 year veteran of the Army Special Forces whose son has already served four tours of duty in Iraq, tells of Rumsfeld’s reliance on military “metrics,” a reductionist strategy [...]

Many thanks go out to the folks at Truthdig for posting this very clear picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il with his hand in the air. On Monday, North Korea announced the successful test of a nuclear bomb. While not a lot is known about the test at this time, it is a [...]

Luckily for Condoleezza Rice, the recent report that Florida Republican Mark Foley has been making innapopropriate overtures towards underage congressional pages has temporarily removed her from the spotlight. Prior to the revelation of Foley’s misconduct, the latest in a string of GOP scandals, Rice had been spending a lot of time on the defensive. It [...]

When I mentioned to my husband that The U.S. vs. John Lennon was about to hit the theaters, his reaction was, “The timing couldn’t be better.” So true when you consider that a film about a U.S. government plan to deport an inconvenient voice for truth is being released the same week that Congress is [...]

Being first and foremost a palmist, I am always looking for photos where I can see some detail about the hands of the rich and powerful. In this photo, taken in 2003, we can clearly see the curve of the first and second fingers of Donald Rumsfeld’s left hand. The first, or index finger, is [...]