Thatcher and Reagan

Margaret Thatcher Foundation: Has links to many documents that cover the Thatcher - Reagan period. To this day VIEWS is surprised that the BBC had not done a show on these very important and interesting documents.

Vietnam Records

A interesting site for a curious reader. Previous secret files from the Vietnam Era. It is from the past that we can learn about the present and future.

The Vietnam War Declassification Project

British Blogs Update

A look at the main Political Blogs read by VIEWS:

Guido: Is looking at the disaster that was the Scottish Election Process. Our own Little Florida of 2000.

Iain Dale: Has a very interesting post on the attempt to suppress Blogging in Italy. MUST READ OF THE DAY.

Xmas Vote ?

CNN: Reports on the mess that is the process that will select the next President of the United States. Those candidates running for President in the Republican and Democratic race might as well cancel their Xmas festivities, with Iowa going for January 3rd and New Hampshire even considering going in December. What a way to run a selection process. This looks like Florida 2000 again, how fun that was, NOT!!.

The Real Senate at Work!!

The New York Times: Has a fuller Report on the Bush victory of getting a Judge passed by the Senate. Good Reporting by the NYT, it was a deal, the Judge got passed but the Republicans would help the Democrats on some issues. This is how the Senate should work, making the place work is not meant to be pretty. THE NYT could not help itself, went through the reasons why the Judge should not have been approved, have a wild guess all Liberal concerns. All good issues but nothing to do with the competence of the Judge.

The Past is the Future ?

If you look in to the past you see yourself, is the USA the modern Rome. Are we seeing the Bush and Clinton Dynasties as the successors to their Roman kin. The reader will be wondering where this post is going and why the title. Simple Reader, lost books from the Roman period could be found in Herculaneum, thus the past is the future.

The Times: Reports the following, " Archaeologists have resumed their search for a library of Greek and Latin masterpieces that is thought to lie under volcanic rock at the ancient Roman site of Herculaneum. " This is great reporting by the Times, over the years it has followed such events and recalled to our jaded eyes that we are part of a long history. The past is the future.

Victory for Bush

CNN: Interesting article, President George W. Bush has gotten a controversial Judge approved by the Senate. The Liberals of course opposed the nomination, thus those running for President on the Democrat side voted against the nomination. It does not matter if a Judge is good these days, in the mind of the left, he has to support their views of the world or they will go on the attack. Bush is not quite a Lame Duck President, but it will come that's politics.