George Bush’s gulag has a peculiar set of rules. They do America proud: defendants are not allowed to attend their own trials, they are not allowed to see the evidence against them [it’s secret!], and now they have to hand over their legal strategy notes to the government. Here’s the story from Time Magazine: TIME.com: […]

You’d think that somebody would know how much all the various Bush wars are costing the citizens of America. But here’s yesterday’s testimony to Congress by the Congressional Budget Office: Testimony on Issues in Estimating the Cost of Operations in Iraq and the War on Terrorism It turns out that no one really has an […]

Let’s not dwell too much on the folly of the rubbish the Bush administration puts out about how the Iraqi situation is improving. They are lying. It may well be that the insurgency is its last days [I don’t think so!], but it has merely been replaced by civil war. The New York Times reports […]