Author: latanawi

   Break it, you buy it.  The Fall of 2002 was a critical one for decisions about Iraq. What did Republicans and fiscal conservatives do? You know, the guys who like to pose as reliable stewards of the economy....

   Today is the fiftieth birthday of the Hungarian revolution.  And as thousands of anti-government protestors marched in Budapest, police fired rubber bullets on them.      In 1956 Hungarians were...

   If “torture” is somehow or at least sometimes prohibited now, who can take a breather?  Not the detainees.  Cruelty, a step below torture, may continue.    The John F. Kennedy...

[update to diary of Oct. 11, 2006]    On slow news days, semi-comical stories have provided momentary respites from the thunder of war, about who was interrogated as a suspected terrorist simply because of a...

   Katherine Harris has changed for the worse since her empty-headed decisions as Florida’s Secretary of State helped Bush into the White House and herself into Congress. Now in a race for the Senate, she is...