Day: 16 November 2010

Paying for Torture Once George W. Bush went public with his concept that water boarding was not torture (in spite of the fact that the U.S prosecuted Japanese after WWII for just such a crime) the moral high ground of the War on Terror, already in contention, was entirely lost. How America ever got itself a government […]

The Euro, Sovereignty and Ireland The Irish government (as well as the Irish people)  is anxious not to go cap in hand to Europe for a crisis loan, declaring that at present it has no need of funds. Everybody else worries that when it does need money it will not be able to get it […]