Americans have been informed by the incoming Obama administration that after eight years under Bush we are now embarking on a new era of smart diplomacy. Joe Biden is …

"You who are so wise must know that different nations have different conceptions of things. You will not therefore take it amiss if our ideas of the white man's …

A very informative interview in The Atlantic has been making the rounds in the bologosphere. Robert Barro, a Harvard economist and former champion of Keynesian economics, has bluntly declared...

Today's winners are the New York Newsday newspaper and its reporter, James T Madore. In an article about new NY Senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, Madore wrote- Only two of Gillibrand's …

The title has nothing to do with anything except as an excuse to post this classic from David Bowie when he was at his thin white duke-iest. Then again …

There's heartbreaking news out of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. If by heartbreaking you mean "predictable attempt at garnering sympathy straight out of the al Qaeda training manual." In …

The headline from BBC News reports US seeks to rework foreign ties in a story on Joe Biden's remarks at the Munich Conference on Security Policy. Continuing a theme …

Will Ferrell has a Broadway production about President Bush that's nothing short offensive. It's so bad I really believe he'd portray Hitler in a better light. "We were joking …

Well that didn't take long. For years we heard laments about the former Bush administration's "politics of fear". The term was usually bandied about disparagingly when discussing specific measures …

Will Obama do it in order to prove he's discarding the ways of the past? From the AP: Iran sternly dismissed decades of U.S. policies targeting Tehran and declared …