So just why is it that the U.S. has fewer friends than before. Condi Rice’s waffling provides a clue. According top the New York Times she clarified the picture on the American torture scandal: Rice Clarifies U.S. Interrogation Policy. But I come away from this article, and from her speech, more than convinced that the […]

America is justifiably proud of its free press. It even brings in foreign journalists from places like Iraq to give them U.S. government sponsored classes on how a free press should act. Like: don’t be taken in by, or print, government propoganda. The Iraqis are reportedly impressed by the classes. I wonder what they’ll make […]