Month: October 2007

Now that Valerie Plame Wilson has finally been allowed to tell her story, it’s clear that the Bush administration and their conservative henchmen have done very little besides lie about her. She was covert, she was...

Last week, Rep. Fortnoy ‘Pete’ Stark took to the House floor and got all vituperative. “You don’t have money to fund the war or children. But you’re going to spend it to blow up innocent people if...

Concerning the upcoming yet unscheduled Annapolis conference to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Rami G. Khouri, the Palestinian editor of the Beirut Daily Star, recently wrote (Arabs Won’t Be Rice’s...

In the wake of the racial tensions in Jena, La., which was sparked by the hanging of three nooses at the local high school, it seems like the rest of the country (well, the white racist part of the country) couldn’t wait...

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. – W. C. Fields