We cannot gloss over this one: why is Dick Cheney working so hard to stop the enactment of legislation requiring the U.S to abide by international laws regarding torture? Because he is an unreconstructed thug. The trouble is that he’s our thug. He is trying to water down the bill passed [by a 90 to […]

George Bush is having a rotten run. Not only is he surrounded by scandal and being set upon by his hard right supporters, but now his ratings are truly miserable. Even in states like North Carolina he is mistrusted by a large majority of voters. Increasingly Americans are seeing him as a far right wing […]