Impeachee Bill Clinton probably wishes he'd never met Monica. George Bush may rue the day he met Katrina. Why? Because at a time when Louisiana and Mississippi National Guardsmen were desperately needed in their home states to do the job they were trained to do –...
The man in the Oval Office is fond of condemning "killers." But his administration continues to kill with impunity. "They can go into Iraq and do this and do that," Martha Madden, former secretary of the Louisiana Department of Environmental...
Iraq: The Democrats Are Just As BadIn his column, "Iraq: The Democrats Are Just As Bad," Justin Raimondo offers this as to why both parties uphold the occupation:"[I]t is the natural tendency of the Washington elites to assume the efficacy of government...
Holed up on the tenth floor of a building in downtown New Orleans, one Michael Barnett, a former Special Forces soldier who works for the domain registrar Directnic.com, sends out this distress signal: "In case anyone in national security is reading this, get the word...
With state, local, and federal officials still grappling with the extent of the devastation and human suffering inflicted by Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans and points east, suggestions that the already plunging political standing of President George W. Bush could...
In 1989, State Department planner Francis Fukuyama wrote his now-famous, seminal essay "The End of History." In it, he argued that humanity had reached "an endpoint in its ideological evolution" and capitalist liberal democracy would be the...
Even the disasters and tragedies that at first unite us in grief or anger – Pearl Harbor, 9/11 – end up dividing us. New Orleans will be no exception. Books are yet being written on how Kimmel and Short, the commanders at Pearl, were scapegoated. Had we not...
And the Hypocrites Who Do It In October 2004, Roger Cohen wrote a column for the International Herald Tribune titled "The Serbian Question," arguing that reducing Serbia to a more manageable size and turning it over to the benevolent hegemony of the European Union...
Leave aside the war's preface of lies. Forget about Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. Pretend not to care about international law and organizations. Ignore the chutzpah of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the increase in terrorism around the world, and the awesome...
The men and women of the National Guard shouldn't be killing in Iraq. They should be helping in New Orleans and Biloxi. The catastrophic hurricane was an act of God. But the U.S. war effort in Iraq is a continuing act of the president. And now, that effort is...
