Come on everyone! Wake up. There have been a couple of reports arguing that the US now has a new “softer” foreign policy. Somehow, the argument goes, George Bush has seen that light and shifted toward a more “engaged” foregn policy, in contrast to the machismo driven yee-haw nonsense of the last few years. Kind […]

No surprise, except if you’re one of Bush’s bubble people, but the violence in Iraq continues unabated. I suppose that Cheney will claim everything is coming under control and that the insurgency is in its last throes. Or maybe the Administration will just say that the good news is not being reported. The New York […]

The House of Representatives takes the cake for gall. It has passed an aggressive anti-immigration law that takes a hard line against illegal immigration. Basically the House wants to round up and deport the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants now living here. The point is that it chooses now, after passing the law, to have […]