Author: IseFire

Announcing what he called a “Budget for Britain’s future,” the Chacellor for the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, who is favored to replace Tony Blair as the head of the Labour Party (who knows when?), today delivered...

Christianity came of age in what the Roman scholar Keith Hopkins calls, “A world full of gods”–the era of Rome’s history, not terribly long after the republic became an empire, marked by the rise of:...

The legal proposal known as the “unitary executive” is much in the news. President Bush’s Supreme Court nominee, Samuel Alito, argued for it in November 2000 at a panel sponsored by the rightwing Federalist...

In light of the recent coverage of the gay marriage ban again being attempted in Iowa, and the KKK’s rally in support of the ban, please consider this: Self-proclaimed conservatives standing against same-sex civil unions...

Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg released campaign spending data this week. Gotham Gazette that the records show that he spent $77.9 million of his own money on his re-election effort. In 2001 he spent $74 million.So, for the...