Mojo Law

Ha! Ha ha! Please excuse my childlike glee, but after Bush vetoed the bill meant to provide medical care for poor children, it is just so darned satisfying to hear that the House has taken a stand against yet another blatantly partisan gesture of a dying Presidency (in …

“Oh billions of dollars, is there any problem you can’t not solve?” Again, John Stewart’s humor comes back to me. The day after Secretary of State Rice announced that the U.S. would continue offering billions of dollars of military aid to assist Pakistan’s “fight” (if you could call …

Despite repeated human rights violations and a general declaration of a state of emergency in Pakistan, Condoleezza Rice announced today that the U.S. will continue offering billions of dollars in military aid to General Musharaff’s questionable government.

Rice’s message seemed to suggest that, despite everything, Pakistan is still most …

The Clinton campaign is claiming that Senator Obama is playing politics rather than taking a leadership role from the get-go — which appears to be the same in my mind as calling him a little dishonest and cowardly — but there doesn’t seem to be anything inconsistent or spineless about …

A little nasty, anyway. While debates among the Republican candidates have been marked by a particularly fierce and contentious attitude, Democrats have largely remained civil in their interactions. However, in yesterday’s Democratic candidate debates — the first in about a month — trailing candidates Edwards and Obama laid …

Feeble FEMA — it’s really almost too easy. Anyway, why not: the failing government agency actually had the gall to stage a fake press conference today on the the Southern California fire situation. The conference was staffed by FEMA employees pretending to be reporters — no real …

At the very least its a very good thing that Turkey has agreed to suspend military offensives into northern Iraq against the Kurds until after the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has met with President Bush to discuss the issue. This meeting will occur in 10 days.

In a …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was a little embarrassed this week to find that the support she believed she had obtained for a bill that would classify the 1915 mass killing of Armenians as genocide melted away. This came in the face of stiff protests from the Turkish government, successor …

The actions of Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq and south-eastern Turkey threaten a dangerous balance of power in the region. Turkey is - and has been for decades - a key ally in NATO and a vital base of operations for the Air Force in the region. The …

Essentially re-requesting the amount he wanted for the war this fiscal year by requesting the difference (and then some), Bush is playing on our feelings of common sense and sympathy to obtain the funding that General Petraeus recommended for the efficient continuation of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. …