A twelve-step program.

1. Deploy 101st Fighting Keyboarders
2. Cut taxes for the $300,000-and-up income bracket
3. Tell citizens to continue shopping
4. Cut taxes on capital gains
5. Begin “fixing” intelligence and facts
6. Undermine Secretary of State with humiliating U.N. presentation
7. Repeal estate tax
8. Alienate remaining international allies
9. Distribute magnetic “support the troops” ribbons
10. Prepare U.S.S. Lincoln for critical photo op
11. Dispatch preparatory rose-petal-cleanup detail for Baghdad, Mosul, Basra, Najaf, Fallujah, etc. 
12. Blame failure on liberals

A glimpse of the office wall belonging to a popular Arizona Senator.

nar·cis·sism

1. Excessive love or admiration of oneself. See Synonyms at conceit.
2. A psychological condition characterized by self-preoccupation, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in self-esteem.

Benson's view, in today's Arizona Republic.

Long time CIA analyst Ray McGovern, former Air Force Colonel Karen U. Kwiatkowski, former US diplomat and Army colonel Ann Wright, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, Cindy Sheehan and others testify in a hearing held by U.S. representative John Conyers regarding the Downing Street Memo. It is an inquiry into whether or not President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war.

The hearing didn't receive a great deal of mainstream media attention (though here's a NY Times article on the matter), but there's been a huge public outcry over the developing story that President Bush's "fact fixing" over the justfiication over a preemptive war — over one million page hits a day for AfterDowningStreet.org.

There's actually more than one memo, and here's a nice breakdown of seven Downing Street documents and how they point to Bush having decided well in advance to go to war. Justin Raimondo examines the importance of these documents, that goes beyond the headlines.

E.J. Montini comments on the "human rights" marchers is dead on. He writes the best way to do good would be to shut off the border crossings.

If the Minutemen and the human rights marchers were to meet at the border these days, it might be possible for individuals who usually face off across an ideological boundary to join forces and save lives.