Cathie from Canada

I always think the catch-phrases that media outlets use for their continuing stories are instructive. For example, during the Iraq war, we...

Josh Marshall writes about the recent Financial Times story about how there really was uranium evidence after all. What is happening here ...

So I checked out Today in Iraq , to see if anything had changed since the big handover on Monday. Nope, it hasn't. They're still dy...

Read James Fallow's latest in The Atlantic Monthly (unfortunately, the article is not online), about how the Bush/Kerry debates will go...

With the Canadian election so interesting, I haven't been looking much at American stuff for the last few days. Josh Marshall writes a...

Next election - 2006 - I think it will be a long time (like two years or more) before we go to the polls again unless the Liberals decide t...

Canadians give Liberals a minority; 'We must do better,' Martin pledges So Harper loses by winning more seats, but not enough. An...

Hitler used in Bush election campaign ad I think the Democrats should let this one stand -- it hurts the Republicans themselves more than ...

What Next? Rolling Stone convenes a panel of experts to discuss what went wrong in Iraq Finally, some sensible talk about Iraq from smart ...

Rick Salutin's column Ideas on election ideas sums up a lot of my own thoughts. He quotes Jack Layton saying "Elections should be...

Cheney Defends Use Of Four-Letter Word So I guess "Go Fuck Yourself" is now going to be the new Republican slogan. It is very a...

This news story Canadians honoured for bravery reminded me that today 35 Canadians (two from Saskatoon) were recognized for bravery. Here ...

Oh, God, she's back! So poor little Monica is boo-hooing now about how she has been rejected again -- Lewinsky rebuffs Clinton's cl...

Reading the most recent reports from Iraq -- Attacks in 5 Iraqi Cities Leave More Than 100 Dead -- reminded me of what must be the world...

Gore's powerful speech -- "Democracy itself is in grave danger" -- pulls it all together. Read it. He concludes: "In ...