Articles of Interest
March 27, 2008, 1:00am

When Gen. David Petraeus testifies to Congress in a few weeks, he is expected to tout recent “security gains” from the U.S. surge in Iraq as a reason to “pause” troop reductions.

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March 27, 2008, 1:00am

Back in President Lyndon B. Johnson’s worst days when he was grappling with the Vietnam quagmire and raucous anti-war protests at home, he said that in the big decisions about war and peace, “The people should be in on the … Read more »

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March 27, 2008, 1:00am

Some days, there’s just no forgetting that Dick Cheney is still the vice president of the United States. We’ve had a few of these recently, with Cheney traveling to Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East on what might be … Read more »

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March 25, 2008, 1:00am

The surge in the price of energy couldn’t come at a worse time. The average price nationally of regular gasoline has shot up to a record $3.28 a gallon.

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March 25, 2008, 1:00am

According to a recent economic outlook by the Center for American Progress (CAP), “[r]eal hourly and weekly wages in January 2008 were lower than at any point in the previous 15 months,”

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March 24, 2008, 1:00am

In 2001, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) opposed the first round of President Bush’s tax cuts

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March 24, 2008, 1:00am

Having passed the 4,000 Americans killed mark in Iraq, the media will once again focus on the war in Iraq, like days ago when we passed the five-year mark there. These kinds of milestones and the inevitable media infatuation with … Read more »

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March 24, 2008, 1:00am

In remembrance of the 4,000 brave men and women who sacrificed everything for us — and the two men who would continue this great tragedy, despite the cost to our soldiers, our military, and our nation.

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March 23, 2008, 1:00am

The Iraq war is now going better than expected, for a change. Most critics of the war, myself included, blew it: we didn’t anticipate the improvements in security that are partly the result of last year’s “surge.”

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March 20, 2008, 1:00am

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a preventative war of choice whose purpose, according to President Bush, was “to disarm Iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from grave danger.”

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