Day January 24, 2006

A study in contrasts

Michelle Bachelet just became president of Chile. Her father was tortured to death, and she herself was tortured. Now she’s president. Democrats are saying that they won’t filibuster even though they have the votes because it might backfire. No guts,…

Bush is not the problem

Bush is a symptom, the problems go much deeper than him. The US has been invading other countries, generally under made-up pretexts, for decades. It’s a war economy, and it’s been that way since WWII. It’s no mistake that a…

The fix was in

A military jury recommended a simple reprimand Monday for an Army officer who killed an Iraqi general by stuffing him headfirst into a sleeping bag and sitting on his chest during an interrogation. He got a reprimand for negligent homicide……