From Bush press conference on Tuesday: "QUESTION: You're not going to Athens this week, are you? BUSH: Athens, Texas? (LAUGHTER) QUESTION: The Olympics in Greece. BUSH: Oh, the Olympics. No, I'm not. QUESTION: Have you been watching? BUSH: Yes. It's been...
NAJAF - Najaf was in the grip of eerie silence Tuesday despite the U.S. jets flying across clear skies and the sound of mortar blasts that shook the town. After three weeks of often pitched battles between armed followers of radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr on the one...
Pre-trial hearings that began Tuesday at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, of prisoners taken in the U.S. "war on terrorism" are "designed to convict," says one expert. The lack of attorney-client confidentiality, absence of an...
It was all too delicious for words. Francis Fukuyama, the boy wonder of the neocons who had famously pronounced the End of History, sat listening to a lecture by War Party stalwart and neocon comrade Charles Krauthammer, and wondered if the former psychiatrist had...
Writing for the public has always been a challenging task. However, President Bush's declaration that "you are with us or against us" has intensified readers' tendency to see columnists in the same way. Awareness is fading that a writer could be an independent thinker...
NEW YORK - Secret detention centers in Iraq and Afghanistan must be included in U.S. military monitoring of prisoner mistreatment, according to an article in the Lancet medical journal that details collusion between medical staff and abusive interrogators. While much...
Rise of EmpireLoved your column on Garet Garrett's book. Your columns are a frequent topic at our Libertarian/ Constitution Party lunch table discussions.As engineers and analysts, we have often speculated about how you (Raimondo) acquire the information and insight...
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In what had been touted as Iraq's first democratic election, last week's tumultuous Iraqi National Conference closed with a four-judge panel selecting a list of candidates for the Interim National Council, leaving the hundreds of delegates invited to the conference to...
The 9-11 Commission report, released late last month, has disrupted the normally quiet Washington August. Various congressional committees are holding hearings on the report this week, even though Congress is not in session, in an attempt to show the government is...
