Is Bush’s War Winding Down or Heating Up?

Most Americans believe that Bush’s Iraqi misadventure is over. The occupation has lost the support of the electorate, the Congress, the generals and the troops. The Democrats are sitting back waiting for Bush to come to terms with reality. They don’t want to...

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Ford: A Lincoln and an Imperial(ist)

One of the late Gerald Ford's favorite sayings during his first few weeks of office was that he was "a Ford, not a Lincoln." Ford meant it as a statement of his humility. Ford's humility was, in fact, one of his best character traits. But in pardoning...

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Defund the War

The twisting and turning, the double- and triple-talk, the obfuscation and evasion – is there any limit to the Democrats' duplicity when it comes to ending the Iraq war? Apparently not. Listen to newly-installed Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, appearing on...

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Backtalk, January 6, 2006

The Democrats' Agenda Thomas Moore said: "...the Constitution makes the president the Commander-in-Chief, giving him control over the military, Congress has little direct say over where and how the troops are deployed." Why has he not recommended that this...

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Kashmir Resolution in Sight?

NEW DELHI - A month after President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan proposed a four-point formula to resolve the troubled question of Kashmir jointly with India, exploratory contacts between the two governments have gathered momentum. Their efforts at reconciling mutual...

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Somalia’s ‘Government’ Still on the Brink

While U.S. officials were euphoric over last month's unexpectedly easy rout by Ethiopia and Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of the Islamic Courts Union, skepticism that stability can be restored to the long-suffering African nation remains high. Much...

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Bonkers Bolton’s Legacy

Once George W. Bush became President, the neo-crazies – in and out of government – attempted to implement their long gestating plan to remake the Middle East to their peculiar liking, effecting "regime change" in Iraq, Iran and elsewhere, by force if...

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Saddam Is Dead – So Are 3,000 Americans

  Watch Ron Paul's speech on video.     Saddam Hussein is dead. So are three thousand Americans. The regime in Iraq has been changed. Yet victory will not be declared: not only does the war go on, it's about to escalate. Obviously the turmoil in Iraq is...

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