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Oh, they’ve got him now! The Democrats finally believe that they have got their man, due to the mutterings of the laughable Lawrence O’Donnell of “Creepy Liar” fame. The Democrats believe that they have finally found the key to bringing down the Bush Administration, through their favorite bogey-man Karl Rove. Somewhere, as I type this, I believe that Rove is sitting back with a fat cigar, dealing with a back spasm from trying too hard to keep from laughing out loud. If he can just hold on a little longer; through the media questions and rhetorical jabs from the brain-dead...

The Western media has again fallen for the dubious propaganda of US stooges in Ukraine, writes John Laughland. There was a time when the left was in favour of revolution, while the right stood unambiguously for the authority of the state. Not any more. This week two British newspapers - the anti-Iraq war Independent and the pro-Iraq war Telegraph - excitedly announced a "revolution" in Ukraine, while in the US the right-wing Washington Times welcomed "the people versus the power". Whether it is Albania in 1997, Serbia in 2000, Georgia last November or Ukraine now, our media regularly peddle the...

Fourth Stooge: Unwrapping the life of the trio's comic foil By Steve Chawkins Special to The Advocate and Greenwich Time December 27, 2002 Floor-to-ceiling shelves stacked with boxes, filing cabinets packed with cross-referenced folders, rows of chronologically arranged binders: But for the movie posters on the walls, Saxon Sitka's rented office in Amarillo, Calif., looks like a corner in the fluorescent depths of a presidential library. In fact, it's a son's tribute to his departed dad: the longtime straight man for the Three Stooges. Emil Sitka died four years ago at 83. Since then, Saxon has taken charge of his...