Issue: 278

George Bush’s statement before the Israeli Knesset this month confirms my long held view that what the late Washington insider Clark Clifford said of Ronald Reagan – our president’s hero – is also true of George II: “He is an amiable dunce!” I have repeatedly argued that George Bush is a hapless ignoramus, more dumb…

“Under North’s direction, Shackley and Clines recruited their old Operation Mongoose pals to run contra’s re-supply operation at El Salvador’s Eloping, formed shadow companies to build clandestine jungle airstrips-established the Contras as a link in the Medellin Cartel’s Andesto-Maimi cocaine trail.”[vi] How successful would this new smuggling operation be? Between 1976 and 1988 the amount…

“… which invokes fundamental questions about the role of government and the distribution of wealth, is something the candidates should be discussing…” No! Candidates should be discussing the war, healthcare, schools and the catastrophic failure of Bush’s so-called conservatism. When people first said “let’s have a conversation about race,” I blogged that this was a…