As Iran nervously awaits the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution on Feb. 11 -- the day that has traditionally drawn the largest public demonstrations -- a subtle change in public discourse can be detected. While hard-line forces in the government of President...
To quote Mr. Dickens, they were the best of times and the worst of times. This is Galloway writing "-30-" and a farewell to this weekly column after almost seven years and wrapping up half a century in the newspaper business. Oh, I will still write an...
KABUL - Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal's very cautiously-worded support for a negotiated settlement with the Taliban leadership in an interview published Monday is only the first public signal of a policy decision by the Barack Obama administration to support a political...
Back in 2007, when Gen. David Petraeus was the surge commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, he had a penchant for clock imagery. In an interview in April of that year, he typically said: "I'm conscious of a couple of things. One is that the Washington clock is moving more...
U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to detain 47 of the just-under 200 remaining prisoners at Guantánamo without trial indefinitely is drawing scorn from legal experts and human rights advocates, who charge that the government simply does not have enough...
The brouhaha over the "conversion" of Charles Johnson, proprietor of the "little green footballs" blog, from a rabid party-lining rightist to an equally rabid party-lining Obama-oid is being given a lot of attention, by the liberal media for...
The results of the special election for the Massachusetts Senate seat once held by Ted Kennedy reverberated like a "shot heard 'round the world" – or at least one heard 'round Washington. All the spending lately in Washington has apparently alienated the...
