Richard Buchanan

A reliable source has suggested the U.S. government paid a Jordanian contractor - fluent in Arabic - to infiltrate the extensive Arab-American community in Dearborn, Mich.

Iranian President Ahmadinejad's gas tank is literally empty and his political engine is close to stalling. President Bush's term in office has all the zest of a rancid dead duck. They have lost the support of their powerbase and could use a foreign policy success.

The Hill reported today that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's (DCCC) all-powerful Democratic Caucus Chair, Representative [IL] Rahm Emanuel, has forbidden freshly elected Democratic members of Congress from appearing on the The Colbert Report.

America need only look beyond its navel to recognize its fortune and, therefore, its responsibilities. Americans either don't give a damn or don't know jack! To be both is to be President!

You've got to love Chris Matthews - the weekday host of MSNBC's Hardball. Wednesday (February 28th), the day after the hideous 4% drop in the Dow Jones Industrial - triggered by a 10% sell off in China - Chris Matthews asked the questions seemingly neglected by the masses.

If it wasn't for the disgusting scale of destruction, death, and general chaotic carnage that is Iraq (circa 2007) it would be almost a pleasant and welcome distraction to be glib about the Iraq Oil Law.

Putin's rhetoric against the U.S. has risen to a near fever pitch. Is this old fashioned Soviet paranoia? After all, Vladimir Putin is a product of the Soviet KGB at the highest point of the Cold War.

Any and all Presidential wannabe's can and have taken repeated potshots at the Former Secretary of Defense - Donald H Rumsfeld. He is fair game after all.

As Putin's official Presidential term of office nears its conclusion - with elections set for March of 2008 - it appears the pressures of diplomatic double-speak and the shackles of friendly innuendo have been released.

Virgin's Sir Richard Branson challenges the world to "attempt deliberate planetary engineering" to remove "200 metric gigatons of carbon accumulated in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution"

The annual Munich Conference on Security Policy invites "the international security community - ministers, representatives of the armed forces, members of parliament, journalists and experts" to a two day "unique forum for discussions on security and peace policy."

The acceptance of global warming as a very real and ultimately catastrophic event for humanity is now a given. The slow but relentless beat of the scientific community has been reinforced by publication by the IPCC which lays bare a terrifying vision for the warming planet.

After fifteen years of introspection, economic and political struggle and despair, Russia appears to be rapidly reclaiming its lost strength - economic and political - and is expressing its renewed confidence as a powerful alternative to the United States in world affairs.

Can the U.S. once again make a pact with truly bad people under the hackneyed expression, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"?

As Fidel embarks on his celestial journey to the Pearly-Gates - how is old St. Pete going to explain to Fidel that the sulfurous pits of Hell might be a better fit?

Like fat thrown on a fire - the Iraq military adventure has enlarged and emboldened the terrorists' will and certainly not dampened their spirits - at the very measureable cost ... of ours.