San Antonio Spurs

Basketball can be an entertaining sport to watch but when you are a Red Sox fan, I mean a Spurs fan it is easy to become less than devoted. After seeing the Spurs at home lose to Phoenix in game four I am waiting on the probable choke. Still, I hope they win.

Gulag in Guantanamo

Has the current administration created a Soviet-style Gulag? Amnesty International claims it has. In today's Times we have the President's response:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/31/politics/31cnd-bush.html?hp&ex=1117598400&en=13f98a96daa3ad44&ei=5094&partner=homepage
The overview from Amnesty International can be found at:
http://www.amnestyusa.org/annualreport/americas.html
It's not all bad unless you happen to be one of these "enemy combatants".

Stem Cell Research

In today's NYTimes article concerning the President's view on Stem Cell research: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/20/politics/20cnd-bush.html?hp&ex=1116648000&en=95e130247f8aa7be&ei=5094&partner=homepage
it is perplexing what his position is. A direct quote:
"I am a strong supporter of stem cell research, but I've made very clear to Congress that the use of federal taxpayer money to promote science that destroys life in order to save life, I am against this," said Mr. Bush.
Sounds like our President in his infinite wisdom is using the 'flip-flop' routine we heard so much about during the campaign.
It is simple, where the U.S. will drag it's feet in research the European medical community will move forward and Americans in the coming decades will be forced to travel overseas for medical treatment that could easily have been pioneered at home.

Troop Return

Will the current administration sometime in the future give the American taxpayer a hint as to when our Military men and women will be able to return stateside? In the current NYTimes article: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/19/international/middleeast/19iraq.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=all
it appears that some of the top brass suggest that our presence in Iraq could last "many years."