Month: May 2005

Well, yes, Keith Olbermann covered the Downing Street Memo Monday (Crooks & Liars has the video), and a Daily Kos <a href="diary trumpets a “Kos Success”: “downingstreetmemo.com is getting the news...

The process begins today in the United States Senate for the showdown on the Bush’s judicial nominees.  Compromises have been offered, faith has been used as a division tactic, and we have come to the moment of truth....

Yet another e-mail from the UCC Justice & Peace Action Network: There is no legislative decision Congress will make this year with more far-reaching consequences than whether to preserve the 200-year-old Senate filibuster....

Pasqua is a former Minister of the interior of France (in 1986-88 and 1993-95). He has been involved in a number of shady stories in France in the past 30 years (I have lost count of the number of times he has been indicted) but...

I’d like to write about tsunami reconstruction efforts in Sri Lanka.  A friend went over there to supervise work for an NGO, and he is disgusted by the Sri Lankan government’s corruption, and its complete...