Author: anarchronarchist

One of the things I LOVE about bootrib are all the great debates that often spring up in the comments to the great diaries published here. Only problem is these informative and stimulating conversations are often effective lost...

Full Story.. If the Dems set a date for withdrawal it’s bad. If Cheney sets it, it’s good. But Cheney said that by the middle of January 2009, it will be clear that “we have in fact achieved our objective in...

This is just an amazing story that is both incredibly sad and heartening in so many ways: A Detroit girl who jumped in front of a hail of bullets to protect her mother from an enraged gunman Saturday night is being hailed as an...

Couched in some of the most legalistic terms, Tamiflu’s producers are forced to respond to mounting evidence that the drug may well be worse than the disease. In an obvious attempt to both minimize perceptions of the...

I wonder if Condi is smart enough to turn the fiasco in Iraq into a powerful bargaining chip during the negotiations between Israel and Palestinian factions in Annapolis. Iraq may be a lot of things right now, but it certainly...