Author: Jerome a Paris

We can have an effective and comprehensive energy policy only if the government takes responsibility for it and if the people understand the seriousness of the challenge and are willing to make sacrifices. Our energy problems...

Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters Without Borders), the media freedom watchdog group, has published its report on the toll of the Iraq war for journalists, and it is gruesome: Iraq is the world’s most dangerous country...

Despite real efforts in 2003 and 2004, the US prison population has been mostly stagnant under Bushco, as compared to previous periods: Source Is Bush soft on crime? Of course, I am being snarky. The recent news (linked to...

For those of you that have followed my previous diaries (Greespan’s bubbles – more graphs) as well as Stirling Newberry’s pieces, bonddad’s “It’s the fucking economy, stupid” series, and...

The Pentagon has formally notified Congress of its intention to sell “bunker-buster” bombs to Israel: The Bush administration has proposed providing Israel with 100 “bunker-buster” bombs capable of...