Three years ago in the Washington Post, Ken Adelman, formerly an assistant to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, promised us "Cakewalk in Iraq." I wonder how Mr. Adelman feels about his promise today. In his article, Adelman disparaged Brookings Institution military...
How generous are Americans? Inconceivably so. An official collecting private donations for victims of the Asian tsunami has described American largess as a "tidal wave of generosity." How generous are Americans compared to everyone else? Canada's Fraser Institute...
Forget the "good news" from Iraq that Glenn Reynolds, Arthur Chrenkoff, and the Pollyanna Brigade keep pushing, because this is the real news: "Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, recently returned from his second fact-finding mission to Iraq, this latest with a small...
When Saddam was first captured, the accolades bestowed upon Mr. Bush were empirical proof enough for me that there would be a permanent presence of U.S. troops in Iraq. The successful snatching of Saddam was enough to validate the entire unconstitutional war in the...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Ron Paul today denounced the national ID card provisions contained in the intelligence bill being voted on in the U.S. House of Representatives, while urging his colleagues to reject the bill and its new layers of needless bureaucracy....
Human rights groups and other observers remain worried about the continuing violence in the western region of Darfur, despite the signing yesterday of a final peace accord between the government of Sudan and southern rebels. They are also concerned that both major...
The usual spiral descent in the airplane landed me into a gray day in Baghdad … the weather the same as when I left a few weeks ago. The usual hordes of global mercenaries crowded the airport … where a person isn't allowed to take their carry-on into the...
NEW YORK - A leading civil rights group says that government records pertaining to an investigation of prisoner abuses at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba are still being withheld, and those it has received under a court order are so heavily censored that...
Pick a week, any week, and you can now be guaranteed that yet more gruesome news will seep out about the global torture regime the Bush administration has set up around the world. Soon the leakage may reach tsunami levels in the press. Of course, last week was a...
For the second time in as many months, a report by a key Pentagon advisory group has implicitly taken the administration of President George W. Bush to task for major failures in pre-war planning, particularly with respect to Iraq. A 220-page report [.pdf], quietly...
