I didn’t notice this, but the Guardian has launched an American service called (wait for it) Guardian America. After the Guardian’s foray into Americana in 2004 with letters to Clark County, there was criticism of its attempt to influence the American political agenda (’Dear Limey assholes‘) and so it is perhaps a surprise to see [...]

I agree with Ewan Watt that the US House of Representatives’ Foreign Relations Committee should not have recognized the Armenian Genocide as such, but perhaps for slightly different reasons. Ewan is, in foreign policy terms, very much a realist and I do agree that the results of the Committee’s decision have already been profoundly negative [...]

Ashok has started an interesting meme - what neglected issues should US presidential candidates address? The one I would go for is an area that affects most other policies - federalism.
I think that the US systems is based on the federal government not having many competencies. Whether this is right or wrong, it is how [...]

The base of Fred Thompson’s comments about the USA having spilt more blood for liberty than any other state is ridiculous and, where it is going, dangerous.. Most Americans alive today were not alive in 1945; they are at least one step removed from it. Rather more, though, were determined not to fight in Vietnam, [...]

According to VAJoe.com, I have an 83.33% match with Dennis Kucinich. Other matches are Barack Obama (71.67%) and John Edwards (67.5%). Hillary comes in at 65.00%.
The full list of my matches is:
Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (D) - 75.83%Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D) - 71.67%New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (D) - 69.17%Former North Carolina Senator [...]

Karl Rove, Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W Bush, said in his resignation interview with the Wall Street Journal that
“he believed Mr Bush would leave behind two lasting pillars of future foreign policy - that harbouring a terrorist makes a nation as guilty as the terrorist, and the act of pre-emption.
While he predicted [...]

I talked here about my dislike for the word ‘chickenhawk’ following on from posts from Matthew Sinclair and Tiberius Gracchus. It is an ad hominem attack and fails to engage with the arguments, cheapening debate on all sides.
Beyond that, it opens up people opposed to (a given) military intervention to an obvious counter-charge. If ‘we’ [...]

Responding to a video entry on the Huffington Post by one Max Blumenthal, Tiberius Gracchus and Matt Sinclair have been discussing the word ‘chickenhawk’. Unfortunately, they are both barking up unfortunately chosen arboreal plants.
Tiberius makes a mistake which, to be frank, is unworthy of him. The video he bases his opinions on is biased (not [...]

My friend Matt Sinclair has pointed me to the Tax Payer’s Alliance blog. I should declare an interest here - I am a taxpayer and no, I don’t just mean VAT.
The latest post is a round-up of recent press coverage that the TPA like. It runs
Hollywood hard-man Bruce Willis interviewed in The Guardian:”Q. Which living [...]

A little while ago, I wrote about how Paris Hilton received a comparatively light sentence and initially seemed to be let out (as she was rich, white and famous) while Genarlow Wilson was sentenced to an inordinate sentence of a decade in prison for consensual oral sex with someone a couple of years his junior.
The [...]