165,000% inflation, 80% unemployment and a now brutally silenced cry for change does nothing to stop the lunacy that is the presidency/dictatorship of Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has withdrawn from the Presidential run-off election scheduled for this coming weekend because government back militia gangs continue to terrorise and kill his supporters. […]

The Democrat Primary local heads this weekend to a crucial (yawn) convention by-laws committee meeting that seems certain to have the thrill and impact of a wet firecracker vs. Hillary’s much feared nuclear option of three weeks ago. The Michigan and Florida delegations will be seated but with a 50% penalty and the delegates split […]

Victory Plan for Hillary (click to see full article on nyt.com)
By GAIL COLLINS/Op-Ed Columnist
The New York Times Online
Published: May 15, 2008
Hillary Clinton scored a whopping victory in West Virginia. Trounced Barack Obama, who is consistently described as the inevitable presidential nominee.
Hard to know exactly what to do with this information.

Roger Clemens has not had a good 2008. Retired from baseball and named in both the Mitchell Report on Steroid Abuses and under investigation by the federal prosecutor U.S. attorney Matt Parrella for committing perjury by lying under oath in the trial of his former trainer and he countersuing that former trainer for defamation, The […]

On 1 May 2003, President Bush stood on the deck of an aircraft carrier in San Diego in front of 5,000 soldiers and Declared “major combat operations in Iraq have ended.” Mission Accomplished said the banner behind their Commander in Chief. Every night MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann signs off his Countdown show by saying “That’s it […]

1. BJ’s Warehouse CEO’s compensation included $762,000 in private jet flights
The Boston Globe 
The nearly $11 million in total compensation that the top executive at BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc. was awarded in 2007 included more than $762,000 for private jet flights, according to an analysis of a regulatory filing by the nation’s third-biggest discount warehouse club.

Gary Younge of The Guardian Newspaper wrote a disturbingly true piece on the growth of race as the key issue in the current US Presidential election. Younge, a black man, speaks openly about the Clinton candidacy’s cynical use of race to destroy Barack Obama’s electability. As a person of colour, as I believe we all […]

These two very bright, inquisitive, sometimes stiff politicians were bound from youth by strong Calvinist and Southern gentlemanly senses of duty. Gordon Brown and Al Gore are decent honourable men of service. They are true policy wonk lovers of detail who never look or feel comfortable in the supercilious glare of 24/7/365 media. They often […]