Author: Captain Future

There’s an earlier diary about the Paul Krugman New York Times column on election theft, but there’s an additional point and Krugman paragraph I want to highlight. There’s another tidbit of news as well....

Americans as a rule know little about Europe, possibly even less than Europeans knew about America a half century ago, when Europeans seemed to think Al Capone was still running Chicago and cowboys roamed the West. On the other...

Cindy Sheehan began as a news item, was speedily inflamed into a controversy, and is fast become a phenomenon, maybe even a legend. Before all of that, she was a mother—the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq.  That...

The “tipping point” terminology has been used significantly for the second time in a week—first in regard to the climate crisis, and Sunday in a column by Frank Rich entitled “Someone Tell the President...

It’s not yet Sunday morning in Crawford, Texas, but when it is, will the Bush motorcade rush to church past the growing tent city of war protestors, now called Camp Casey?   Cindy Sheehan continues to be vilified by...