The Dake Page

Have you noticed how politicians and the media are great at providing false choices? These are “choices” that are created as straw men to o...

Ah, the CNN debates. First the general. Both were emceed by Wolf Blitzer, which I believe worked better than the earlier debate format (at...

In The Assault on Reason, Al Gore writes a scathing rebuke to the policies of the Bush Administration. He unabashedly accuses Bush, Cheney, ...

I'm concerned about Kazakhstan. Not because of Borat (who probably has done more to boost the nascent tourism industry there than any o...

It's growing increasingly difficult to hold my tongue. Today President Bush declassified selected intelligence information on Usama bin...

Saw just a few minutes of Larry King's interview with Al Gore tonight (so this may be out of context). But I was struck by a bit of iron...

Following on the heels of last week's Democratic entree, last night the 10 (currently announced) Republican candidates for president deb...

Alas...work beckons in the capital of the free world (as they say) ...the afternoon wanes in KZ (end of the day) Souls rise to meet the ensu...

I returned from a trip that took me through Europe and Texas just in time to catch the first Democratic presidential debate. Now, the value...

I read today (4/10/07) an opinion piece by Washington Post columnist David Broder. I recommend it to anyone interested in where we go from ...

Washington DC Cherry Blossoms 2007