How’s that for democracy? Hamas has won the Palestinian election by a handy majority and George Bush doesn’t quite know how to react. His tepid response is reported in the New York Times here: Bush Wants Abbas to Remain Palestinian Leader The problem that Bush has in the Middle East is that the more he […]

The companies that extract natural gas from public lands pay the government, that is to say the taxpayers of America, a fee based on market prices and volumes pumped. Well that’s what’s supposed to happen. Guess what? The Bush Administration has ‘loosened the rules and reduced the auditing’ of the deals the government has with […]