Day July 8, 2005

Robert Fisk: The reality of this barbaric bombing If we are fighting insurgency in Iraq, what makes us think insurgency won’t come to us?  “If you bomb our cities,” Osama bin Laden said in one of his recent video tapes,…

UN peacekeepers in Haiti have stormed a slum in the capital, Port-au-Prince, killing armed gang members loyal to the country’s ousted president. “Peacekeepers”?

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the…

Note to Tom Cruise: You are maxing out. Wearing out the welcome. Becoming less the tolerable and moderately talented and mildly likable megastar and more like an itchy boil on the deranged ferret of popular culture, requiring lancing.