The events surrounding Terri Schiavo, have, of late, become nothing less than a circus. The woman has suffered impairment from a stroke nearly fifteen years ago and since then has been kept alive using an artificial feeding tube. She has also become the centre of a flurry of debates concerning the right to live, custodial […]

The US government has reviewed IBM’s sale of its personal computer business to China and delivered its verdict on whether that deal is a threat to our national security. The Bush administration has cleared the way for IBM to sell its personal computer business to China. IBM and China’s government-owned Lenovo this week announced the […]

Representative Sam Johnson (R., Texas) said comments he made about dropping a nuclear bomb on Syria were a joke. He was overheard saying “Syria is the problem. Syria is where those weapons of mass destruction are, in my view. You know, I can fly an F-15, put two nukes on ‘em and I’ll make one […]

As if $200 billion wasn’t enough to make a Mess-O’Potamia (get it?), the Shrub and his cronies are now asking for $85 billion more. Add that to the earmarked $25 billion approved over the summer and the illegal invasion of Iraq is now going to total over $300 billion.
Senator Barbara Boxer (D, CA) put it […]