When our Congress lets someone act like a king long enough, then they start thinking they are one: The Bush administration is losing patience with Gordon Brown over Iran, with senior American diplomats frustrated by his reluctance to declare bluntly that the Islamic state must never be allowed nuclear weapons. Hey Bush – perhaps they […]
British troops are starting to leave and Denmark is joining them. Amazing that this is happening while we are increasing our presence there. The other amazing thing is that Blair announced a “timetable”. I guess he wants to embolden the enemy. Will the Republicans and Bush call him a “cut and runner”?
With all the tensions in the Middle East, leave it to our President to have a little blunder that at least gives us some humor: President Bush, not realizing his remarks were being picked up by a microphone, bluntly expressed his frustration with the actions of Hezbollah, a militant Islamic group believed backed by Iran […]
Tony Blair’s failure to improve the procedures for investigating claims of ministerial misconduct is undermining his own government, the sleaze watchdog has warned. Following the scandal surrounding culture secretary Tessa Jowell and the investigation into her conduct by cabinet secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell, the committee on standards in public life has called for a tightening up of […]
There is a movement going on around the blogosphere to keep copies of documents from the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray. In doing my part I am also supplying copies of these documents on my private server which can be viewed here: Telegrams (pdf) Legal Paper (jpg) These papers are written by Craig […]
This week our President started his historic five week vacation at the ranch in Crawford, Texas. The term historic is used in a rhetorical sense considering this is the longest vacation any President has taken, and only 6 months into his second term, he is quickly on his way to break the record of total […]