Month: February 2007

We are now being told that Iran is meddling in Iraq and is “helping insurgents”. While the government doesn’t know whether it should release the information, it wants us to trust them. Trust them about evidence that National...

Writing for The Guardian on Thursday, Timothy Garton Ash argues that although we must stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, we shouldn’t bomb it to do so. In his words, “The cure would be worse than the...

The other day I posted a diary on cluster analysis of the US Senate.  This is sort of a followup, looking at how closely the Dems and Reps align on various ratings. See belowFirst, let’s look at the average for each...

Barack Obama officially announced his candidacy today. You can read his announcement speech here. I’d like to hear people’s thoughts about Obama. I like him personally, although he’s not perfect…no one...

not in the presidency.  At least, not in 2009. I have nowhere near the expertise of exposure and investigation that journalists such as David Sirota have as a researcher into the political philosophy and ability of Sen....