GW has claimed he was on a mission from God when he launched the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a senior Palestinian politician in an interview to be broadcast by the BBC soon. The White House says no way… that’s “absurd!”
“I came here today because I believe that American democracy is in grave danger. It is no longer possible to ignore the strangeness of our public discourse. I know that I am not the only one who feels that something has gone basically and badly wrong in the way America’s fabled ‘marketplace of ideas’ now functions.” — former Vice President Al Gore
A San Diego federal judge has ordered the release of an animal-rights activist who refused to testify before a grand jury in the case of an arson fire believed to have committed by environmental extremists.