Jesse Helms died today, on the fourth of July.

He did a very good thing in working on increasing aid--America's "historic $5bn aid package for the world's poorest countries"--through Jubilee 2000.

"As the president put it in his speech: "Dick Cheney walked into the Oval office, he said, 'Jesse Helms wants us to listen to Bono's idea.'" Read more…