Month: August 2005

San Diego has billed itself as “America’s Finest City” for decades. Yet, today San Diego stands on the brink of bankruptcy. Twenty-five years of Republican stewardship have created a city that is broke and...

Tom Shales: “[Rome is] HBO’s lavish, ravishing and wickedly shocking new series about long-ago ancestors of The Sopranos … [T]he film itself elevates the Roman-epic genre to a new level of literate lustiness, a...

This weekend is a Bank (public) holiday in England and it’s party time on the streets of west London. Celebrating it’s 40th birthday, the Notting Hill Carnival is under way. This is the first big public event since...

Four generals sat at the table with Tim Russert this morning on Meet the Press: General Wesley Clark (Ret.) Fmr. NATO Supreme Allied Commander – Europe; General Wayne Downing (Ret.) Fmr. Commander-in-Chief U.S. Special...

Over the past few days, all eyes have been on the Gulf of Mexico as the elements have come to together to create a dreadfully perfect storm.  As I write, Katrina is lurking ominously off shore and forecasters are using...