Simon Jenkins on the ancient and ferocious Taliban nation: The American secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, flies to Britain this week to meet a crisis entirely of London and Washington’s creation. They have no strategy for the continuing occupation of Afghanistan. They are hanging on for dear life and praying for something to turn up. Britain is repeating the experience of Gordon in Khartoum, of the Dardanelles, Singapore and Crete,

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Multiple wives means multiple benefits: Husbands with multiple wives have been given the go-ahead to claim extra welfare benefits following a year-long Government review, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.Even though bigamy is a crime in Britain, the decision by ministers means that polygamous marriages can now be recognised formally by the state, so long as the weddings took place in countries where the arrangement is legal. The outcome will chiefly

Sen. Barack Obama has surged into a virtual tie with Sen. Hillary Clinton in California’s Democratic presidential primary, according to the latest Field Poll.  Obama’s campaign credits — get ready — organization: Obama’s California campaign team said the latest polls reflect a hard-charging effort to track down potential voters in every precinct – undeterred by polls that showed the Illinois senator behind by double digits here for most of the race. “If we hadn’t laid

It seems as though some of America’s most preeeminent politicians, while out on the campaign trail, might want to spare a few minutes to brush up on their Dale Carnegie.  On the Democratic side, Bill Clinton is going on his “don’t call it a mea culpa” tour of black churches today.  The Clintons have to be smarting a bit that Sen. Ted Kennedy has swung his full corpulence behind Sen.

I doubt the IP address resolves to Brazil — or Sweden – but I had to chuckle.