Threatening an imminent economic collapse, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke have bamboozled Congress into enacting the most brazen confiscatory scheme ever concocted by government. The scheme would have American taxpayers fork over $700...
Updated at 8:08 p.m. EDT, Oct. 5, 2008At least 26 Iraqis were killed and 13 more were wounded in the latest round of violence. Reports resumed out of Mosul after several days of relative quiet, but now Baghdad appears unusually peaceful. Meanwhile, a Turkish general...
The Israeli army officer in charge of the occupation of the West Bank, Gen. Gadi Shamni, has lambasted extremist Jewish settlers, blaming rising levels of violence on the encouragement of their leadership and right-wing rabbis. It is rare for a senior commander to...
In politics, truth telling can be dangerous. Remember when Jimmy Carter was voted out of office, in part, for telling the American people, in a time of high inflation and unemployment, what they didn't want to hear – that they were self indulgent and consumed...
According to the Guardian, a few months ago President Bush put the kibosh on Israel's plan to take out, in a preventative strike, Iran's nuclear facilities, despite all being duly subject to a Safeguards Agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency, as...
Updated at 5:02 p.m. EDT, Oct. 4, 2008In Baghdad, two U.S. helicopters collided during landing but left only a few causalties. Elsewhere, at least seven Iraqis were killed, including a suspected senior al-Qaeda leader. Only two Iraqi wounded were reported today. Also,...
America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11 Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier PublicAffairs 412 pp. The end of the Cold War – the dissolution of the Soviet Union, crash of the Eastern European Soviet satellites, collapse of the Warsaw Pact, and fall of the Berlin...
The $700 billion bailout for the Wall Street poobahs looks ready to sail through the House of Representatives, which earlier – and uncharacteristically – listened to the popular will and voted a resounding "No!" heard ‘round the world. After going back...
While the US Senate's approval of a controversial nuclear deal with India was hailed by the White House Thursday as a major advance in Washington's "strategic relationship" with the South Asian giant, weapons experts warned that it dealt a serious blow to...
Updated at 5:13 p.m. EDT, Oct. 3, 2008A day after Baghdad was rocked by multiple bombings, quiet seemingly returned to the city; however, it is the prayer day so many reporters have taken the day off to worship. One U.S. soldier was killed in a roadside bombing in...
