Month: May 2006

Monday’s observance of Memorial Day, the annual commemoration of U.S. soldiers who died in the service of their country, has taken place at a particularly difficult moment for both the U.S. armed forces and the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush. While the traditions of small-town parades, barbecues, and family visits to the cemetery … Continue reading “Massacre Story Mars
Memorial Day”

Ehud Olmert – who assumed the office of prime minister of Israel earlier this month – has just addressed a joint session of what some cynics have been referring to lately as “The Best Congress Money Can Buy.” That’s the same Congress where House members voted overwhelmingly (361-37) the day before Olmert’s address for a … Continue reading “The Best Congress
Money Can Buy”

KABUL – A sudden upsurge in Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan has seen casualties mount daily among combatants and the civilian population. The rebels, who were ousted from power by U.S.-led coalition forces in late 2001, have regrouped in the southern provinces to ambush and strike government and military targets nearly every day. Caught in the … Continue reading “Civilians Die as Taliban Fights US-Led Troops”

I don’t believe a word of this tall tale from Ynet – the online version of Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel’s most popular daily newspaper – claiming that Hezbollah is planning a terrorist attack on the upcoming World Cup tournament to be held in Germany: "The terror plot is aimed at proving to the international community that … Continue reading “Showdown Over Iran”

NEW DELHI – The United States and India have taken yet another step toward finalizing the nuclear cooperation agreement they signed in July last year and more key lawmakers in Washington have expressed support for the deal. The agreement makes a special, one-time exception in the global nuclear nonproliferation regime for India by acknowledging and … Continue reading “India, US Tighten Nuclear Handshake”

On Feb. 6, 2006, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales launched a convoluted attack on the Fourth Amendment before the Senate Judiciary Committee. This assault on the meaning of the Fourth Amendment is, in my estimation, the biggest leap forward for totalitarianism in this country. The following is an excerpt from Alberto Gonzales’ Fourth Amendment catechism … Continue reading “Gonzales Gone Wild”

Is the Bush Regime a state sponsor of terrorism? A powerful case can be made that it is. In the past three years, the Bush Regime has murdered tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians and an unknown number of Afghan ones. U.S. Marines, our finest and proudest military force, are under criminal investigation for breaking … Continue reading “The Evil Is in Our Government”

Have you ever thought how peaceful and prosperous we would be if our national leaders had followed the advice of George Washington in his “Farewell Address“? For starters, we would not be hopelessly in debt, and there would not be so many Americans buried in national cemeteries and in distant lands. Nor would we be … Continue reading “George Washington Had It Right”

The mother of a murdered Belfast teenager has met U.S. diplomats to express her concerns about a Pentagon security contract in Iraq. Jean McBride’s son Peter was shot dead in 1992 by two soldiers from the Scots Guards. Their commanding officer, Lt. Col. Tim Spicer, is now the head of Aegis Specialist Risk Management, one … Continue reading “US Ambassador Pledges Full Investigation of Mercenary Videos”

Bertie Wooster: Were you frightfully bright as a kid, Jeeves? Jeeves: My mother thought me intelligent, sir. Bertie Wooster: You can’t go by that. My mother thought me intelligent! – from a Wodehouse novel, a rough recollection If I am one of the 200 million whose phone records have been tracked by the government, Gen. … Continue reading “Making Hay(den) While
They Shun Signs”