Russ McBee

I've often thought that President Bush probably read ''The Trial'' and ''1984'' at some point and mistook them for how-to manuals. Today's signing of the FISA bill tends to support that theory. On the heels of yesterday's capitulation by the Senate on telecom immunity and warrantless spying, President Bush wasted no time in signing this abrogation ...

Yesterday, President Bush delivered a speech in Israel in which he called ''appeasers'' anyone who advocates talks with Iran. He even drew an explicit parallel to 1930's-era Nazi appeasers: ''Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all ...