Memo to: Chairman Richard Lugar, Senate Foreign Relations cc: Senator Joseph Biden, ranking Democrat Re: The Plan to Scrap the Nonproliferation Treaty You have obviously told the White House that you will hold your nose and try to get John Bolton through the committee...
In February, the Army missed its recruiting goal for the first time in nearly five years. The Army missed its March goal by 32 percent while the need for soldiers is on the rise. The United States Armed Services have announced a new plan to solve their recruiting...
The man who famously said the United Nations headquarters could lose 10 stories and "it wouldn't make a bit of difference" appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today as U.S. President George W. Bush's nominee to be Washington's next...
The report [.pdf] of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction begins as follows: "On the brink of war, and in front of the whole world, the United States government asserted that Saddam Hussein had...
Laowai is a colloquial term for foreigner in China – lao means old and wai means outside. In Chinese, the word lao denotes respect (e.g., laoshi = teacher, laoban = boss) and is a polite way to address older relatives, big brothers, etc. For most Chinese, laowai...
Junk food and junk laws, neither are good for you. Unfortunately for Americans, an ever increasing number of junk laws are paving our way to national disaster. What are junk laws? They are laws passed by the Congress and then ignored; to wit, unenforced immigration...
When a supposedly fixed election in distant Kyrgyzstan did not meet the "democratic" standards of either the U.S. government or the European Union, it was time for yet another color-coded Western-financed "revolution." When Eduard Shevardnadze ceased to be useful to...
In Defense of John Paul II, PeacemakerThanks and kudos to Justin Raimondo for his recent Behind the Headlines column. Whether one is Catholic or not, agnostic, atheist or true believer, those who are all these things and antiwar, can appreciate the Holy Father's...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congress is poised to give President George Bush $80 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Senate is expected to pass the measure Monday. In the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday afternoon, every Democrat joined the...
This is the way Dafna Linzer of the Washington Post began her analysis last week of the report of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction; "Of all the claims U.S. intelligence made about Iraq's arsenal...
