Day: June 23, 2006

The Bush administration has been quietly tracking people suspected of bankrolling terrorism through a secret program that gives the government access to a massive data base of international financial transactions.

The Bush administration has been quietly tracking people suspected of bankrolling terrorism through a secret program that gives the government access to a massive data base of international financial transactions.

Hundreds of chemical weapons found in Iraq were produced before the 1991 Gulf War and probably are so old they couldn’t be used as designed, intelligence officials said Thursday.

Mexican politicians are the cheekiest participants in today’s immigration debate. South of the border, officials consider Uncle Sam responsible for nurturing Mexico’s poor. Thus, they demand, America must welcome illegal Mexican immigrants. Far be it for Mexico’s leaders to improve conditions below the Rio Grande so that their constituents might stay home.

Nearly two and a half years away from a presidential election, the only name on everyone’s lips is hers. Outside of President Bush, and perhaps her own husband, she is the most visible politician in America and that includes her potential Republican opponent in the most popular of the 2008 scenarios, Arizona Sen. John McCain.

Nearly two and a half years away from a presidential election, the only name on everyone’s lips is hers. Outside of President Bush, and perhaps her own husband, she is the most visible politician in America and that includes her potential Republican opponent in the most popular of the 2008 scenarios, Arizona Sen. John McCain.

Thanks to the spreading use of surveillance cameras, a citizen now has no expectation, reasonable or otherwise, of any privacy at all in a public space. An average American now appears on a surveillance camera between 10 and 100 times a day.

Watching hours of debate in the U.S. Senate about the war in Iraq was akin to listening to canned political speeches at a county fair — tiresomely repetitive and a little pathetic.