Author: Don Quixote

     DQ here.  In an earlier comment, Clint puts forth the premise that the Palestinians would accept a two-state solution, his proof being a 30-year-old Syrian UN resolution.  Well, being the least well informed of anyone in this discussion, this sent me off to do a little research.  I found some

     DQ again.  Just read a news article with some good background on the current crisis.  I’m not writing about the background, though, but about its assumptions as to the public’s reaction.  It suggests that if Israeli civilians are killed they will “begin clamoring for a cease-fire.”  But if Lebanese civilians

     DQ here.  I’ve been silent about the recent events in the Middle East because Bookworm knows the topic far better than I do and is doing a fine job of blogging about it.  I do want to make a couple of suggestions, though.      I keep hearing calls warning

     DQ here.  I just read a brochure from XM radio that demonstrates the liberal bias-blindspot.  Each XM station gets a little (always positive) write-up in the brochure.  They are advertising their product, after all.  To serve their diverse audience, XM includes a variety of talk stations, including AmericaRight and AirAmerica.  Here

Congratulations to Bookworm who lobbied hard against California Proposition 82 (tax the rich to pay for government-controlled pre-schools).  Much to my (DQ’s) amazement, and proving once again that my gut feel is an excellent reverse indicator, the proposition failed 60-40.  Maybe there is hope for California yet.

     In an earlier comment, Dagon called for mass conversion to ethanol as a way of ending our dependence on oil.  I mentioned that he hadn't said where all that ethanol would come from.  Little did I know that it turns out we are barely started on using ethanol in

Hi, DQ here. Dagon posted a comment to another entry so interesting I thought I'd post a new entry on it. In response to my question as to what he would do, Dagon said: [C]omplete independence from middle-east oil; a consistent foreign policy which advocates human rights everywhere and not

When the immigration reform story broke and the demonstrating started San Francisco's mayor Grandstanding Gavin announced to the world that if he didn't like the law Congress ultimately agreed on he simply wouldn't cooperate or enforce the new rules. Shades of George Wallace fighting federal integration demands. Now the reports

I’m delighted by the comments on yesterday’s blog entry, especially the ones from our liberal friends (however intemperate a few of them may have been). Bookworm and I have tried very hard to create in the Bookwormroom a safe place for people of all point of view to come and