Rod Blagojevich
Villains: Meet the shame gang
From Norway gunman Anders Behring Breivik to cancer fraudster Ashley Kirilow: portraits of evil
We must close the absurdity gap
France gets a first lady who posed naked. America gets Sarah Palin. We get Brad Wall.
Lawyering down
Rod Blagojevich’s lawyer quit because his client wouldn’t listen to common sense? Boy, there’s one influence-peddling case that’s gone right off the rails. That sort of thing never happens. For a lawyer to just up and quit on his client, I mean… well… never mind.
Presidential Honeymoons and 2009
Israel’s commitment of ground troops in Gaza brings the crisis to a new and surely more dangerous level. Its rejection of calls for a ceasefire and Hamas’s resistance to halting rocket attacks into southern Israel mean Barack Obama will already have a major foreign policy crisis on his hands by the time he assumes office. Add to this the stimulus package and the bipartisan support Obama needs to deal with the deepening economic recession, and it is clear the new president will face the most difficult start since FDR took the oath of office in 1932.