December 24, 2006

Bush's new deal?

"Bush ponders £10bn New Deal to create jobs in Iraq," we are told by a headline in the Sunday Times of London. What's a New Deal without the fireside chats?  Even George Bush's most ardent supporters can't excuse his near derelic...

December 14, 2006

Israel Fatigue

[Israel is] a "sh***y little country.... Why should the world be in danger of World War III because of those people?" --Daniel Bernard, French ambassador to Britain, 1/10/2002The attempt to delegitimize the state of Israel has found many wi...