Month: August 2005

The prime minister of Poland, the U.S.’s staunch ally in Iraq, has publicly said post-war nation-building efforts in Iraq have “failed totally,” reports The Scotsman and countless other media outlets today....

We all knew we would lose OH-2, but for a moment there it sure was great to see the grassroots momentum roaring forward and scaring the Republican party. We all just for a moment could imagine that Paul Hackett would beat the...

[From the diaries by susanhu w minor edits] In the flush of Hackett’s exceptional showing in southern Ohio — and it is fantastic — and reading some of the threads it occurred to me some of us may want to get...

US journalist in Basra, kidnapped and executed, his body dumped on the side of the highway. His interpreter was shot and is in serious condition in hospital. He is the 64th media person killed in Iraq, the first American...

As was diaried here yesterday, New York’s governor George Pataki has got it in his head to run for president, which would be a laughing matter if only there wasn’t going to be real suffering behind it.  While...