The U.S. decides not to join in the international ban of cluster bombs: More than 100 countries reached agreement Wednesday to ban cluster bombs, controversial weapons that human rights groups deplore but that the United States, which did not join the ban, calls an integral, legitimate part of its arsenal. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, […]
It’s a good question that needs to be answered by the Republican nominee: In both 1993 and 1994, McCain voted against the anti-terrorism measure. On each occasion, McCain was one of thirty radical anti-choice Senators to oppose the bill Fortunately, despite McCain’s opposition, it passed the Senate by a 69-30 margin. At the time, right-wing […]
If a Democratic administration did this, that’s exactly what the wingnuts would be yelling: The United States says it has reached a deal with North Korea to provide 500,000 metric tons of food aid to the closed-off communist nation over the coming year. Talking with enemies is soo bad, but only if there is a […]
This story was buried on page A21 of the Washington Post yesterday: A new assessment of U.S. policy in Iraq by the same experts who advised the original Iraq Study Group concludes that political progress is “so slow, halting and superficial” and political fragmentation “so pronounced” that the United States is no closer to being […]
John McCain is talking about bringing back the old “Just Say No” program: John McCain went back to the future last night suggesting that an old anti-drug program should be revived to stem demand for illegal drugs. “We’re creating a demand here in the United States. We all know that,” McCain said at a town […]
That’s how our economy is being described: The economy skidded to a near halt in the final quarter of last year, clobbered by dual slumps in housing and credit that caused people and businesses to spend and invest more sparingly. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that the gross domestic product increased at a scant 0.6 […]
This is amazing. Last night 60 Minutes ran the segment on Karl Rove’s involvement in the Don Siegelman conviction. If what has happened in Alabama doesn’t seem communistic enough for you, there is more. All last week the White House was pressuring CBS to not air the segment. Well it did air last night, but […]
This is going to be interesting: Ailing revolutionary icon Fidel Castro permanently gave up the Cuban presidency on Tuesday, ending five decades of ironclad rule of the island marked by his brash defiance of the United States. In a message published by the online version of the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma, the 81-year-old Castro […]
What a way to silently increase over all troop presence in Iraq. Send in a 30,000 as part of a “surge” and then when you declare it a success, only pull out 20,000. This leaves you a net gain of 10,000 troops: The United States will probably have more troops in Iraq this summer than […]
From the pages of “winning hearts and minds”: U.S. helicopters attacked allied Iraqi militiamen south of the capital on Saturday, killing at least nine civilians and wounding three, apparently because of a miscommunication during fighting with suspected Islamist gunmen. An Iraqi police spokesman put the death toll at 13. Casualties included two women and a […]