Karmic Knowledge

In the past month, we’ve seen an enormous amount of volatility in the global financial markets, mostly due to the subprime mortgage crisis and the collapse of the real estate bubble. In an attempt to calm the panic, the Federal Reserve dusted off a protocol last invoked during the great depression of the 1930s, enabling […]

The word that seems to be most closely associated with Senator Hillary Clinton is Polarizing. According to Lanny Davis, writing in The Hill’s Pundit Blog, a Google search on “Hillary Clinton” and the word “polarizing” returns 1,260,000 hits, far more than you would get if you paired that word with the name of any of […]

Dennis Kucinich can’t get no respect. First he was excluded from from a December 13th Democratic debate in Iowa, then he was not allowed to participate in the ABC sponsored debate in New Hampshire. In both cases, the sponsors of the debates claimed that Kucinich had not met the criteria for consideration as a serious […]

In the past few weeks Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has been under fire for suspected abuse of the power of his office. His troubles began with the revelation of possible misuse of the Patriot Act to collect information on ordinary American citizens, and were compounded by the dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys for […]

Now that Al Gore’s revolutionary documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, has won an academy award, the call to draft Gore for a 2008 presidential run is growing louder and louder. And while he continues to insist that he is not interested in another run for office, Mr. Gore had no problem faking out […]

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 in […]

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 […]

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, “Run, […]

(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 […]