Every movement has its wackos, its "extremists," who take the original premise of an idea to its furthest, kookiest application. Usually they are harmless, due to their small numbers and the obvious nuttiness of their ideas. In times of crisis, however, when...
Updated at 11:25 p.m Aug. 19, 2007At least 125 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 78 more were wounded in the latest violence. No foreign military deaths were announced. Joint U.S.-Iraqi forces killed 76 gunmen and arrested 58 others in Baquba. Three suspects were...
Scott Horton takes Stu Bykofsky of the Philadelphia Daily News to task for his suggestion that America needs another 9/11. By the end of the interview, Scott is practically straddling Bykofsky and pummeling him with facts, when Bykofsky goes whoops! I have a "real...
BAGHDAD - The collapse of Iraq's infrastructure has created a worsening water crisis that is killing untold numbers of Iraqis. Iraq, with its famous Tigris and Euphrates rivers that run the length of the country, is now unable to provide drinking water to most of its...
Here we go again. Because "the continuing and immediate threat" of "grave acts of terrorism or threats of terrorism" constitutes "an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy and economy of the United...
The news story in the New York Times actually painted the conviction Thursday of terrorism suspect Jose Padilla as "a significant victory for the Bush administration." The L.A. Times suggested something rather similar. It was far from that. If anything, it...
Updated at 10:45 p.m. EDT, Aug. 18, 2007In what was an unusually quiet Saturday, at least 32 Iraqis were killed and 46 more were wounded in the latest attacks. No foreign military deaths were reported.In Baghdad, 18 dumped bodies were recovered. Also, a mortar attack...
The Last Days of the Incas Kim MacQuarrie Simon and Schuster, 2007 544 pp. Today the U.S. military can destroy – almost effortlessly – any other organized armed forces on earth. American weapons are a generation ahead of those of its allies, let alone the...
The man who ran CNN's news operation during the invasion of Iraq is now doing damage control in response to a new documentary's evidence that he kowtowed to the Pentagon on behalf of the cable network. His current denial says a lot about how "liberal media"...
This week marks a year since the end of hostilities now officially called the Second Lebanon war by Israelis. A month of fighting – mostly Israeli aerial bombardment of Lebanon, and rocket attacks from the Shi'ite militia Hezbollah on northern Israel in response...
