Orange is not exactly a Christmas color: more like Halloween, but then there is definitely a Halloween-ish quality to our chieftain of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, who raised the color-coded terror alert from an "elevated yellow" to "high" orange, and...
The decision by Libya's Moammar Qadaffi to come clean, so to speak, and give up his weapons of mass destruction is being touted, by the War Party, as proof that their program of "regime change" in Iraq has put the fear of God – or, at least, of Washington and...
The Bush administration is sitting on a ticking time-bomb that may be just about to go off. The chairman of the 9/11 Commission, charged with discovering the truth about that seminal event, is taking his job very seriously: and that means President Bush is in some...
American officials are denying that the intent of showing captive Saddam being poked, prodded, and shorn of his locks was to humiliate the fallen Iraqi tyrant. But other supporters of this war openly gloated at the sight of the lion de-maned, as the San Francisco...
At the end of his long war against the Roman Empire, the rebel chieftain of ancient Gaul, Vercingetorix, was captured and brought in chains to Rome, where he was dragged along the cobblestones of the Appian Way behind a chariot to the "ooohs" and "aaaahs" of the Roman...
Bill Kristol raises the dread specter of Howard Dean in the White House, and it's all because the President's hawkish impulses are being somehow subverted by out-of-line subordinates: "While Bush is committed to victory in that war, his secretary of state seems...
The decisive victory of Russian President Vladimir Putin's "United Russia" slate of candidates for the Duma is the occasion for a new round of Putin-bashing, with "human rights officials" condemning the election results as "a retreat from Russia's democratic reforms."...
I shivered, a little, as I watched Lisa Meyers' report on NBC the other night: "New and threatening messages have been received from Al Qaeda. There's a videotape aimed at American and Saudi Arabian rulers and another that includes what appears to be well-produced...
We're supposed to believe that the President went to Iraq for Thanksgiving because he's such a brave guy, and just because it was The Right Thing to Do. The growing legion of Bush-haters, who see the President's every move as a calculated political ploy, frame his...
The blue-tiled shrine of the Hidden Imam looms over the northern Iraqi city of Samarra, reminding the now rather decrepit and dusty-looking town of its former glory as the seat of the Muslim Caliphate. It was there, perhaps not too surprisingly, that the Iraqi...
