While writing some posts this week, it occurred to me that folks who read Polimom may not know which political blogs I read…. or why. I realize that there have been occassions when my sourcing has caused confusion (as one local Houston blogger discovered).
Polimom doesn’t read opinions from one side or another of an issue, […]
Updated and bumped from early this morning, to accommodate some roundups and updates at the bottom.
Just when Polimom felt things were looking irredeemably hopeless in Iraq (CNN):
Terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the coalition’s most wanted man in Iraq, was killed in an airstrike near Baquba, jubilant U.S. and Iraqi authorities announced Thursday.
Al-Zarqawi’s death gives […]
I’ve drafted, and then abandoned, any number of posts about Ann Coulter’s recent appearance on the Today Show. She was there to discuss defend her recent blather book, Godless, and she confirmed what people have known for ever (seems like…): she’s a soulless beast.
Polimom never did write a post I was happy with, […]
Tell me something. Does this sound familiar to you?
[…] to combat a terrorist infiltration at the border, a tsunami of migrants and an unprecedented crime wave by drug smugglers, thieves, rapists, human traffickers and murderers who cross our frontier at will,”
Does it have, perhaps, just the slightest bit of commonality with this:
[…] there is a […]
For purposes of this post, Polimom wants to focus on Mexico.
No matter how many ways I look at the illegal immigration issues, and the House v. Senate approaches, I can’t help feeling we’re missing the boat.
For any solution to be considered comprehensive, it must answer why people are so determined to come here.
Folks have, of […]
New Orleans, and its residents, face a conundrum:
Low income people want to come home, but there’s nowhere to go. Rents have sky-rocketed due to the lack of rental housing stock, and nearly 90% of the city’s public housing apartments are still closed and unavailable (NY Times).
In bone-baking heat under a cloudless sky, evacuees traveling from […]
From the LA Times:
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that explicitly bans “humiliating and degrading treatment,” according to knowledgeable military officials, a step that would mark a further, potentially permanent, shift away from strict adherence to international human rights standards.
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President Bush’s critics […]
Just when you thought it was safe to walk the streets, the beleaguered GOP leadership tells us all that no, there’s yet another crucial issue confronting our country — one that threatens the very moral fabric of our society and will be our undoing if we don’t do something about it right […]
The other day at the pool, while watching our daughters practice for a swim meet, Polimom talked with another mother — a mom I met last year when our kids became friends.
Our daughters swim the same heats in the same events, and so this other mom and I spend a lot of time together.. just […]