The announcement earlier this month that the United States will pursue the design and construction of new nuclear weapons has not been warmly embraced by the rest of the world. In fact, most people outside the country view the move as more evidence of a policy...
Congressman Trades Iraq Vote for Spinach
A liberal Congressman who represents California's picturesque central coast region is under fire for trading his vote on the Iraq war for spinach. Rep. Sam Farr, a Democrat from the hippy college town of Santa Cruz, originally voted against the Iraq war and has voted...
Friday: 5 GIs, 74 Iraqis Killed; 48 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 1:34 a.m. EST, Mar. 24, 2007At least 74 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 48 Iraqis were wounded. Several notable events also took place. An assassination attempt on Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Salam al-Zobaie killed nine people and injured the deputy...
Collision Course
Eight years ago this week, NATO launched an aerial attack against then-Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, on the pretext of halting the "conflict" raging in the Serbian province of Kosovo between the Albanian separatists and the Yugoslav military and police....
Defund the War
Watch Ron Paul's speech on video. The $124 billion supplemental appropriation is a good bill to oppose. I am pleased that many of my colleagues will join me in voting against this measure. If one is unhappy with our progress in Iraq after four years of war, voting to...
Thursday: 3 GIs, 51 Iraqis Killed; 42 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 12:50 a.m. EST, Mar. 23, 2007At least 51 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and 42 were wounded during light violence. Three American servicemen were killed in separate incidents as well. Also, a mortar rocked a building where UN Secretary General Ban...
Picking on Halliburton
Halliburton's move from Houston to Dubai has aroused predictable concerns about security. Halliburton is known to be a major defense contractor, and the rulers of Dubai are undeniably Arabs, albeit Arabs who are demonstrably among America's closest allies. On one...
The Dead-Enders
Christopher Hitchens isn't sorry. Not about being a Commie all those years ago; after all, he was a Trotskyite, not one of those icky Stalinists, which merits a "Get Out of Jail Free" card. Not about being frequently drunk in public: after all, it's part of his image...
Wednesday: 72 Iraqis Killed, 88 Wounded
Updated at 12:50 a.m. EST, March. 22, 2007After a couple of days of elevated violence, attacks have tapered off a bit. However, at least 72 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and another 88 were wounded. No foreigners were reported killed.U.S. forces in Taji...
Iraqis Increasingly Pessimistic, Anti-US
Four years after the U.S.-led invasion, Iraqis have never been more pessimistic about their lives and antagonistic toward their purported liberators, according to a major new poll [.pdf] released Monday by BBC, ABC News, USA Today, and the German ARD television...


