Dick Cheney

Op-Ed: The War Criminal’s New Heart

Op-Ed: The War Criminal’s New Heart

March 27, 2012 5:15 am
Since the news flashed Saturday night on my iPad that former US Vice President and former Halliburton CEO, Dick Cheney received a donor heart transplant at age 71, I have...

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An Open Letter to US General Sheehan: What Dutch Honour Means

By Denis Campbell While you have every right to make a fool of yourself, even when testifying before Congress, you have no right to besmirch the honour of every Dutch solider (many of whom often served alongside your own US troops), to justify your Party’s internal political needs. You wrongly and bone-headedly claimed the 1995 [...]

RedState.com’s Erick Erickson’s Head Officially Explodes

by Charley James It was bound to happen sooner or later to poor Erick Erickson. He runs the fringe, right-wing website RedState.com and, after 10 months of increasingly pulsating throbs like a character in an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon at every move the Obama Administration has made, Friday morning Erickson’s head absolutely exploded. Why? Because [...]

Plamegate Rides Again: Early Peek At New Film

by Charley James Thanks to the movie website Corona Coming Attractions, there’s an advance review of the new film Fair Game, based on the book by Valerie Plame, the CIA case officer who was “outed” by the Bush Administration when her husband called the president a liar in The New York Times in July, 2003, [...]

Welsh Lion to Polish Legacy: How Much Will Death of Mentoring Factor?

UPDATED: By Denis Campbell Rhodri Morgan could be moments away from officially announcing his retirement as Welsh 1st Minister. The rumour mill buzzes with anticipation. It could occur today during the annual Labour Party Conference kicking off today in Brighton (Gordon Brown desperately needs his pre-election conference to end on a collegial high note). Back [...]

Obama Should Not Take Responsibility for Bush’s 9/11 Failure

(We welcome back veteran Chicago journalist Monroe Anderson after an extended summer break.) by Monoe Anderson Watching today’s commemorations of the eight anniversary of the 9/11 terrorists attacks, I am reminded of how badly the Bush Administration blew it. The most incompetent presidency in our nation’s history presided over the worst failure in national security [...]

Sometimes A Handshake IS Just A Handshake

The desperate have become maniacal. The US Republican Party is well beyond clutching at straws, it is about to disappear underneath the surface of the water for the third time and everyone from Dick Cheney to John Boehner to RNC Chair Michael Steele is desperately clinging to the highest masthead as party leader radio host [...]