| A trial would fail, and split the U.S. when unity behind progressive ...
Michael Tomasky is American editor of the Guardian newspaper of London. He is American. High crimes and misdemeanors? Sure. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are constitutional rogues of the highest order. Strictly on the merits, impeachment proceedings should begin posthaste. But there are compelling reasons people - especially liberals who are most inclined to want to see Bush and Cheney in the dock - should step back and consider the larger ramifications of such a move. Most people think of impeachment as a purely legal action. But it is also - indeed, I'd argue that it is even chiefly - a political action. And political actions produce reactions that we may not be crazy about. My argument starts here: Barring any new and shocking information, impeachment will fail. Let me repeat: It. Will.
6 powers propose new sanctions and restrictions on Iran
The six countries offered Iran a package of economic incentives and political rewards in June 2006 if it agreed to freeze uranium enrichment before talks on its nuclear program. But Iran has refused and defied two Security Council resolutions demanding suspension. The new proposal would freeze the assets of additional individuals and entities involved in Iran's nuclear activities. They were not identified in those parts seen by The AP. .
AS WE WERE: The first edition of the Glasgow Advertiser, as The Herald ...
The first issue of the Glasgow Advertiser, as The Herald was first known, published 225 years ago this weekend, is a fascinating document, showing how the city's fortunes were locked into those of North America, continental Europe and India. Trade with all three of these regions was vital to the city economy, but war and the rumour of war were depressing the markets. Famine across much of Scotland was not helping prospects either. But as the news unfolds - for it is placed in the paper in the order it was received - a new order emerges: Britain has concluded a peace with France and Spain, but its 13 American colonies have been lost. For Glasgow, this means the end of the Tobacco Lords, but a resumption of trade with the continent and the promise of trade - on far less fortunate terms - with the emerging country called America.
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