Opposition Leader Mark Latham insists he did not loose his cool when he shouted in parliament that Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer was a "lousy rotten disgrace".

What if Saddam had complied with the resolutions? Bush?s position implies that Saddam would have remained in power and no war would have occurred. After all, the resolutions did not demand ?regime-change.? But if Bush was prepared to leave him in power, why does he now list Saddam?s brutality against the Iraqi people as grounds for war?


The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation inflated the number of sources providing crucial information about the Air-India disaster in a confidential report provided to the RCMP a few months after the sensational explosions that killed 331 people, B.C. Supreme Court heard Thursday.
The FBI had received information about the Air-India disaster from one source but advised the RCMP that the information had come from several people, retired FBI agent Ron Parrish confirmed in response to questioning by defence lawyer Michael Code.

Rarely in life is a decision so quickly and thoroughly vindicated as Canada's decision to opt out of the war in Iraq. A year later, the stated casus belli has evaporated. No weapons of mass destruction have been found, despite the best efforts of more than a thousand American weapons inspectors with free rein. No connection to al-Qaeda has been established. No persuasive argument endures about the urgency of the U.S. need to act.

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Did the administration neglect counterterrorism even after 9/11? After 9/11 the F.B.I. requested $1.5 billion for counterterrorism operations, but the White House slashed this by two-thirds. (Meanwhile, the Bush campaign has been attacking John Kerry because he once voted for a small cut in intelligence funds.)
Oh, and the next time terrorists launch an attack on American soil, they will find their task made much easier by the administration's strange reluctance, even after 9/11, to protect potential targets. In November 2001 a bipartisan delegation urged the president to spend about $10 billion on top-security priorities like ports and nuclear sites. But Mr. Bush flatly refused.

JACKSON, Miss. -- The Mississippi Supreme Court yesterday upheld a state law that bans the sale of sex toys.

Gradually, it dawned on me that the military had herded us into the press center so that we could be kept away from information.