In 2002 I asked my House colleagues a rhetorical question with regard to the onslaught of government growth in the post-September 11th era: Is America becoming a police state? The question is no longer rhetorical. We are not yet living in a total police state, but it...
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Iran's judiciary has threatened Internet journalists with torture and prison if they do not renounce accusations that authorities abused members of the electronic media and dissidents who were rounded up months ago. According to New York-based Human Rights Watch...
DAMASCUS - For the second time this year, the Syrian capital Damascus was shaken last week by a bomb attack against a leading figure of the fundamentalist Palestinian group Hamas. The target of the attack survived but it was another reminder of the role that Syria...
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) e-mails released Monday by a civil liberties group provide new details of abuses committed by U.S. military personnel in Iraq and at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba, including one note that alluded, possibly incorrectly, to...
You come out of the subway at Times Square across the street from the Gap and catty-corner to ESPN Zone, walk past the Drug Enforcement Agency's temporary museum ("Freedom is … Drug Free!") with its "Target America: Drug Traffickers, Terrorists, and You" show,...
According to Undersecretary of State John Bolton, "[T]he United States strongly believes that Iran has a clandestine program to produce nuclear weapons, and has been warning publicly about Tehran's weapons ambitions for over a decade." Now, having nuke...
U.S. President George W. Bush is not known for his love either of books or of history. Nonetheless, he has frequently been compared to two former presidents who were both avid readers and even writers of history – Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Both...
The Tyrant of Bosnia struck again Thursday: almost six months after the last purge of such kind, Imperial viceroy Paddy Ashdown has launched another, proscribing officials, confiscating property and threatening further repression if the Bosnian Serb authorities failed...
Anybody who has any doubts that George Bush is a true believer in himself should finally be convinced by his awarding the Medal of Freedom to the three blunderers of the war in Iraq. Gen. Tommy Franks allowed Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to browbeat him into...
