Senator Joe Lieberman (Dem., CT) and senator Jon Kyl (Rep., AZ) have relaunched the Committee on the Present Danger, first created by Scoop Jackson in 1950 as a bipartisan effort “to educate Americans about the growing threat of Soviet communism.” Here’s a quote from their op-ed in the Washington Post:

“In this third incarnation, we intend to focus the committee on the present danger our generation faces: international terrorism from Islamic extremists and the outlaw states that either harbor or support them. The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks awoke all Americans to the capabilities and brutality of our new enemy, but today too many people are insufficiently aware of our enemy’s evil worldwide designs, which include waging jihad against all Americans and reestablishing a totalitarian religious empire in the Middle East.”

Read the whole thing. Lieberman is almost the only sane Democrat left standing. He was only able to muster 5% of the vote in the primaries, which is an indictment of the Democrats, who have become beholden to all the crazies who imagine that Iraq is Vietnam.
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Here’s an interesting article in The Register that is relevant to what I believe is Apple’s growing lock on the online music business. Macrovision and SunnComm, the two biggest players in CD copy protection are trying to cut a deal with Apple, because their copy-protected CDs are not iPod compliant. More evidence that if you want to be in the music download business, you have to deal with Apple.

When I’m walking around town, or riding my bike, I notice that I have a certain amount of resentment towards all those idiots driving in their cars. When I’m driving my car, I feel the same resentment towards all those pedestrian and bicycling jerks who are getting in my way. Prior to 9/11, I was a far left liberal who felt that all those on the conservative side of things were greedy, unfeeling, ignorant bastards. Now that I am a post 9/11 conservative, the liberals all look like delusional morons. I used to think that the mainstream media were biased against liberals. Now I think the opposite. I thought I was right then. I think that I’m right now. I am a walking (or driving) microcosm of the political polarization in America that the pundits are all talking about. No matter which side I’m on, the other side looks like a bunch of wackos.
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