During a New Hampshire townhall meeting on Jan. 3, an audience member started to ask Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) how long he expected troops to stay in Iraq, saying, “President Bush has talked about staying in Iraq for 50 years,” … Read more »
We asked a dozen national security experts what Congress should ask the top military commander in Iraq at this week’s hearings.
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On Monday, former Vice President Al Gore and his climate change awareness organization, the Alliance for Climate Protection, launched a $300 million, three-year campaign to teach “people in the US and around the world that the climate crisis is both … Read more »
In the final debate of the 2000 presidential campaign, Vice-President Al Gore argued he would spend more on defense than his opponent. Then-Gov. George Bush retorted, “If this were a spending contest, I would come in second.”
Bear Stearns has been rescued, and its shareholders have been placated. Wall Street has several invigorating injections of billions of tax-payer dollars.
Using the Department of Justice, friendly governors, and its usual propaganda outlets, the GOP has propagated the myth of voter fraud to purge the rolls of non-Republicans.
Ten days ago, I noted the reckless assertion of Barack Obama’s former pastor that the United States government had deliberately engineered AIDS to kill blacks, but I tried to put it in context by citing a poll showing that 30 … Read more »
On April 2, 2007, the Supreme Court ruled that the Clean Air Act clearly empowered the Environmental Protection Agency to address greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks.
This week’s economic news didn’t leave a lot of reason to start the weekend smiling. Whether it be the revised fourth-quarter U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures, a falling consumer confidence report,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admits ‘We don’t have troopsaready to go’ to fight the war in Afghanistan.
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