Month October 2006

The Baker Panel has carefully leaked that the Iraq War is going badly for the U.S. (whoa, now there’s a penetrating insight) and proposes a possible solution of inviting Iran and Syria to help stop the fighting. Would this be…

Daily Nation, Kenya It’s therefore a cocktail of pressures that has turned our continent into a stomping ground for adoption-crazy celebrities – a desire to appear normal; a chance to escape harsh northern winters on U.N.-sponsored junkets; and perhaps some…

This from The Australian, who says at least one faction in China favors a coup in North Korea like the one against Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu that “replaced him with communist reformers and generals.” However, the article quotes unnamed sources…

That’s a whole lot less than it could have been for this 67-year-old radical lawyer who often defends those the mainstream despises.The sentence is hardly the best of all worlds but way better than the 30 years she could have…