Conyers and his Committee have been planning to charge Bush for a long time. What they would like ultimately, I believe, is to reopen the ICC Treaty and have the U.S. sign on. Then they will combine with some of the “universal jurisdiction” countries in the EU and elsewhere to charge Bush with crimes against [...]
Obama was elected by many voters whose swooning adulation for him is less rational than the whooping of the emotional religious fundamentalists of the right who, these die-hard Obamians believe, are the main threat to our civil liberties. A comparison of the attitudinal character of the two groups is revealing. Obamians assert that the [...]