Imagine: for a few years you were investing the money you had saved for your daughter's college education in one of those moderately conservative plans that provided some increase in the value of the investment without exposing it to major risks. But then your...
"There is nothing too dangerous to talk about." Spoken by the actor who plays Stephen Hopkins, Rhode Island's member of the Continental Congress, in the musical 1776, I have long thought the phrase should be added to the Great Seal of the United States....
Last week Congress spent another $82 billion in an "emergency" supplemental appropriations bill. There is no emergency, however: Congress simply exceeded its fiscal year budget once again and needs more money. The 13 standard appropriations bills, which...
A Little Background Music Shakar Odai, the head of the Internal Affairs Department of the Baghdad police, was recently interviewed by David Enders of Mother Jones magazine, who wrote: "'More than 98' percent of the police officers (a force known alike for its use of...
Last November, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom – as agents for the European Union – began negotiations with Iran on "a mutually acceptable long-term arrangement" that would (a) provide "objective guarantees" to the EU that Iran's...
It's 3 o'clock and the sun is shining down bright upon the scattered groups of people hanging about in front of the shopping complex. A huge banner over the front façade blows gently in the breeze – the number "8" fills the banner, and hundreds of tiny photos...
NEW DELHI - It's a rarity for the United States to lend its ear to Indian human rights campaigners, let alone take any action on their petitions. But Washington's cancellation Friday of a U.S. visa given to right-wing politician Narendra Modi, blamed by human rights...
In chronicling the crimes of the War Party, surely the worst, from a libertarian point of view – excluding large-scale war crimes committed on the ground in Iraq – are those that are even now inflicting fatal wounds on our political system here at home. War,...
Let me deal first with an issue raised by a reader who called me Monday morning after hearing a brief synopsis on the radio and asked if I had yet read the long piece in Sunday's New York Times dealing with assertions from both the Iraqi interim government and the...
"Look! You fools! You're in danger! Can't you see? They're after you! They're after all of us! Our wives…our children…they're here already! You're next!" ~Dr. Miles Bennell, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers Before you or someone you love enlists, check out...
