In order to track down a few thousand insurgents, the US has found it necessary to destroy a city of 1.7 million. Madness. Hundreds of thousands of insurgents will now rise up. Reconstruction, could cost the U.S. tens of millions of…

                              Of course, the ever-growing Iraqi insurgency has chosen to ignore the tanks. Something to think about, eh?

President Bush said Social Security reform, a key component of his successful presidential campaign agenda, would be a priority in his second term. A “key component” of his campaign? Hardly. Bush barely mentioned it until the day after the election.…

A young man was shot dead outside this store at Adams and Hill in L.A. earlier this week. It probably didn’t even make the news. Clearly, a lot of people cared about him…    

Our Wednesday posting about armored personnel carriers at the antiwar demonstration in Westwood got picked up by many, much larger sites. PoliZeros got 11,000 hits on Wednesday and 7,000 on Thursday – way up from the current average of about…

Aschroft: judges shouldn’t uphold the Constitution. John Ashcroft, the former Attorney General of the United States of America, has given a public, blistering critique of judges who strike down the Bush administration’s policies as unconstitutional. “The danger I see here is…

U.S. forces meet fierce resistance in Fallujah Mosul has exploded Kurds fighting as proxies for the US are attacking Arabs in an attempt to stop the open revolt in Mosul, a city of one million. Sharp thinking there, neocons, I…