Entries for June 17, 2006

The British press has unearthed something interesting: the 22-page letter that 29-year-old Tony Blair sent to the leftist Labour Party leader Michael Foot in 1982. Blair had just recently stood as the Labour candidate in a byelection in Beaconsfield, a hugely Tory seat in the London exurbs where he finished out of the money.

The Senate voted on Thursday and the House on Friday on resolutions calling for a continued military effort in Iraq. The vote in the Senate wasn't close: 93-6 in favor. Senators Robert Byrd (WV), Edward Kennedy (MA), John Kerry (MA), Tom Harkin (IA), Barbara Boxer (CA) and Russ Feingold (WI).