Interest Group Foreign Policy Doug Bandow writes that the recent controversy surrounding the recent Armenian genocide resolution (1) did not have any "conceivable relevance" to the U.S. government and (2) modern-day Turkey has nothing to do with the genocide...
For those who have doubts about miracles, a double one occurred today. An honest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran's nuclear program has been issued, and its "Key Judgments" were made public. With redraft after redraft, it was what the Germans call eine...
Updated at 1:00 a.m. EST, Dec. 5, 2007At least 47 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 51 more were wounded. Kidnappers holding five Britons are threatening to kill one of them in 10 days unless British troops withdraw from Iraq. Also, congressional investigators from...
Updated at 12:30 a.m. EST, Dec. 4, 2007At least 64 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 15 more were wounded in the latest round of violence. No Coalition casualties were reported. Also, a British report admitted that British troops were unable to make Basra safe. A...
Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion David Gelernter Doubleday, 2007 240 pp. David Gelernter, the Yale University computer science professor known for surviving a bomb attack by the Unabomber, has written a fascinating book, Americanism: The Fourth Great...
The title of the agreement, signed by President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki in a "video conference" last week, and carefully labeled as a "non-binding" set of principles for further negotiations, was a mouthful: a "Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term...
Russians cast their votes in parliamentary elections on Sunday, with an overwhelming victory widely expected for Vladimir Putin's United Russia Party – and yet we already knew what we were supposed to think of the whole process, with Western governments and media...
The Czech government has begun an 890,000-dollar information campaign supporting the U.S. plan to set up a radar station in the Czech Republic. Opponents of the plan – led by the Social Democrats – want some of that money to fund alternative information...
Updated at 11:00 p.m. EST, Dec. 2, 2007At least 53 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 33 were wounded in the lastest round of violence. A mass grave was found in Fallujah and over a dozen people were wounded during a car bombing in Baquba. No Coalition...
Ho-Ho-Ho. Halloween has now ushered in the year-end shopping season (formerly known as Christmas). We're supposed to deck the malls with boughs of holly. So it's a bit surprising that ABC News has picked-up (uncritically) a Associated Press "report" that...
