A kinder, gentler iron fist? It appears Kerry’s foreign policy isn’t much different from Dubya’s. Oh yes, the US should be less obviously drunken frat-boy obnoxious, but the goal of unquestioned American dominance remains the same. Which, of course, is…

Yahoo goes Google-hunting with a new search engine Yahoo is rolling out a brand new search engine today, with its own index and ranking mechanisms, casting aside its long-standing use of Google-powered search results. The move is bound to roil…

Inventing a close race The pundits are saying that Wisconsin was a close race. It wasn’t. Kerry won by six points, which by any standards, is a comfortable margin of victory.

Apparently Hell did just freeze over Ireland outlaws smoking in pubs

Momentum building for March 20 The upcoming March 20 antiwar demonstrations are already generating serious interest and they are still more than a month away. Demos will be held across the planet that day – in the Middle East, Europe,…

Nearly 4,500 priests accused of abuse Nearly 4,500 Roman Catholic priests have been accused of sexually abusing a total of 11,000 children in the United States between 1950 and 2002, CNN reported yesterday, citing a draft of a study scheduled…

War inna Babylon Prosecutor in terror case controversy sues Ashcroft A federal prosecutor in a major terrorism case in Detroit has taken the rare step of suing Attorney General John Ashcroft, alleging the Justice Department interfered with the case, compromised…