A Change of Heart

"It isn't a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else."

         - Anthony Weston, A Rulebook for Arguments (Hackett)

Roger L. Simon reports on Fawaz Turki, an Arab News columnist,  who has changed his views about the conflict in Iraq. Initially, against the U.S. invasion, he now supports us. Simon's comments and links are worth a read.

This may not surprise you, but many of our celebrities think the majority of U.S. citizens are dumb. They're entitled to their opinions, of course, but why express them to foreign audiences? Couldn't we keep it "in the family?"

John Kerry, Democratic presidential hopeful, recently fired his campaign manager, Jim Jordan. It must have been an unpopular dismissal because two more of Kerry's campaign team have quit. Here's a guy who promises to get more countries to help us in Iraq and he can't even keep his own team together.

George Soros, a billionaire seven times over, has thrown his influence and over $15.5 million of his fortune, into efforts to unseat Bush in 2004. $10 million has been given to America Coming Together (ACT) and another $5 million to MoveOn.org, a Democratic activist organization. Is this some of the "soft money" that Campaign Finance Reform was supposed to eliminate? There's a way to get around every law, I guess.

This is pretty neat, I think. Remember when the space probe Voyager was launched 26 years ago? I didn't think so. Anyway, this little bugger is still flying and it's at the edge of our Solar System, 8.4 billion miles from the sun. Check the photo archives.