The gutsy Senate investigation into offshore tax havens has produced explosive material. Too bad there wasn’t more of an impact in the big media outlets. On August 1, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released its 370-page report with an equally thick stack of primary documents, in conjunction with a five-hour hearing and often dramatic testimony recorded by four or five television cameras. CNN chose that day to spend its air time on Fidel’s “ceding power,” running repetitive footage of sweaty Miamians honking their automobile horns and saying deleterious things about Castro.

Wonder which network offshores its assets in the Caymans....   more »

Senator Joe Lieberman is not the only Democrat who needed, and got, a good primary opponent this year. In Maryland, the 4^th congressional district needed and gets an excellent and capable candidate in Donna Edwards.

Ms. Edwards spoke yesterday evening at a neighborhood gathering in suburban Cheverly, Maryland. A parent and an attorney with a career in public interest organizations, she spoke well, firmly and courteously clarifying her differences with the incumbent on the biggest issues:

• The Iraq war. Incumbent Albert Wynn voted for the vague and indefinite war resolution. Along with human losses ...   more »