He added, “There is no doubt in my mind, there is a living God. And no doubt in my mind that the Lord Christ was sent by the Almighty.”

P.S.—Blithely trampling the Constitutional requirement of separation of church and state, a transcript of Bush’s hallelujah press session was sent to the White House for broader media distribution. Taxpayers, of course, will foot the fuel tab for Air Force One.

Education in France—A new French law requires schools to teach in a more favorable light the history of the country’s filthy imperialist record—particularly the decades-long “dirty war” against colonial Algeria. Hundreds of thousands of Algerians died before winning independence.

We learned of the new French law from a report in the Times of London. Earlier, at least two ranking United Kingdom officials called for a similar approach to the gory history of British imperialism.

Sounds good—The African National Congress, which uprooted the apartheid system of South Africa with the aim of a non-racist social order, has moved to rename Pretoria, the capital city. The proposed name is Tshwane, which means “We are the same.”

And no one’s behind bars—A Canadian Pacific Railway freight train hit a passenger car in Wisconsin, killing four people. A company spokesperson said the crossing was marked by a sign, but it had no lights or gates.

This they call a union?—“You keep putting rats in a box and pretty soon these rats go off and kill each other”—From media interview on prison overcrowding with Charles Hughes, chapter president of the guards “union” at the state prison in Lancaster, California.

Members of ‘ownership society’?—“Rhode Island: The number of people entering homeless shelters in Rhode Island reached an all-time high [last year]. The Rhode Island Emergency Shelter Information Project says 6,030 people entered shelters, a 6 percent increase from the previous year. It counted 1,564 homeless children, an 8 percent increase from 2003.”—USA Today.  
 
 
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