Month: December 2006

Looming Showdown on Unitary Executive

Some things are hard to predict and other things are not. It is not hard to predict that the Executive Branch is going to come into conflict with the Legislative Branch over the next two years. One reason is the President and...

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Bill Nelson in Syria

Ahmed Chalabi recently went to Syria to discuss the restoration of diplomatic relations between Damascus and Baghdad. Rumor has it that Chalabi is acting as a kind of back-door channel between Syria and the White House and that...

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The Autumnal City–Again, the Triple Crisis

Last week I left off with this: I feel sleep seeping into my head with each happy, irrelevant conversation I have, to the point I can hardly think   I had better stop complaining, and just accept it:  This is my life!...

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7 year-olds "ready to die" thanks to Bush

Can you see the Democracy spreading from Iraq? The march of freedom taking place throughout the Middle East? Remember this, from less than two years ago?Hardly a day goes by without Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice or...

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