I don’t believe for a minute that Bush, Cheney, and their posse care an iota whether the people of Iraq live in freedom or not. They went into Iraq for the oil contracts, and the construction contracts, and all the billions of other dollars that their buddies have made from this war. But they did […]
The civil war in Iraq, and the battle between Fatah and Hamas in Gaza, while tragic, do serve a useful purpose: they put the lie to the myth, created by Muslim nation-states and bought into by many Western governments, that the source of all the trouble in the Middle East is the Arab-Israeli conflict. Solve […]
So he’s the biggest disaster ever to hit this country, Bush still needs a job after his second term as president is over. I know he’s been in semi-retirement since he took office anyway, and he does have that ranch, but can he really be content wielding an electric saw all day, every day, for […]
On Monday this week, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (I’m sorry; I find this whole name change thing with the Pope rather spooky) went on record against a referendum that would ease restrictions on artificial insemination and embryonic research in Italy. Shortly before that (this guy doesn’t waste time) he had urged the Catholics in Spain to […]
