The following quote is posted not for the status of its source (modest), but for its pithy timeliness: It is more than investigation of possible counterterrorism oversight that [the Bush administ...

"Finally victims will be rehabilitated -- even if many are already dead," said a campaigner friday, aparently with no irony, after Germany's parliament passed legislation allowing around 50,000 gay...

It's not easy for Americans to grasp complex political concepts, especially in this wonderful age of concensus, but Richard Goldstein offers to help us to understand a man who definitely did not fi...

Dan Rather is ashamed that he, and the American media generally, has not taken on the Bush administration over the war on terrorism, because of misguided ideas about patriotism, and of course, out ...

Just a thought. But there are more and more stories, and more and more corroborations, of an alleged connection between oil and gas industry profits and "The War on Terror." Since the Bushie admi...

Bushie's only response to the growing uproar over his administration's foreknowledge of a terrorist attack, foreknowledge kept secret until now, is to ask God for wisdom. Well, we know we won't ge...

Hugh Hicks never met a lightbulb he didn't like, so he collected them all. He was not above what might be termed stealing, and he proudly displayed stolen bulbs in a group he called 10 Hot Types....

Still two countries, Georgie! Would it be better to believe the Unelected One was simply under a misapprehension, or just generally stupid? Here are his exact words, as heard in news broadcasts, ...

The headline of the day, or even more, from Reuters: New NATO-Russia Partnership Ends Cold War Again

For a non-hysterical discussion of gay sexuality in the Catholic priesthood, read the interview the NYTimes published May 11. The interviewee tries to distinguish pedophilia from an attraction to s...