Reunification party wins big in Taiwan

Taiwan’s opposition Nationalist Party won an overwhelming victory in island-wide municipal elections Saturday, putting it in position to push its agenda of reunification with China during the 2008 presidential campaign. This is, to put it mildly, earth-shaking news. Or, at…

Above the law in Iraq

Private security contractors have been involved in scores of shootings in Iraq, but none have been prosecuted despite findings in at least one fatal case that the men had not followed proper procedures, according to interviews and documents obtained by…

L.A. Times Tookie op-eds

From the Sunday L.A. Times  Governor, let Tookie live He’s a murderer. He should die. Our real heroes don’t kill black kids A pootbutt’s scary life in outer space L.A. A stupid waste It’s foolish to execute a man who…

CIA torture flights

CIA operated 400-plus secret flights in Germany: report   The German government reportedly has a list of at least 437 flights operated by the US Central Intelligence Agency in German airspace. These would be plane flights carrying prisoners to be…

Lamest excuse of the week

A key U.S. Senator says the military bought advertisements in Iraqi newspapers to promote the U.S.-led coalition’s work in Iraq, but that some had been published without the disclaimer that they had been funded by the military. So THAT’s what…