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NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Gen. James Jones, said last week that calls he made to members in September for an additional 2,500 troops and more planes and helicopters for the Afghanistan mission had gone unanswered.
The innocuously titled Iraq Study Group, which has evolved into a parallel policy establishment over the past 8 months, is also unique in the way it operates. For one thing, it's even more secretive than the Bush adminstration. 40 experts
Here's the entire 323 book written by Mr. Norton, and the abuses of the Constitution as of 1950. Imagine for a moment if he were alive today, the volumes and volumes he would have to write about now in 2006. Enjoy!!
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(From the Dec 6, issue) One way to understand Moqtada al-Sadr is to think of him as a young Mafia don. He aims for respectability, and is willing to kill for it. Yet the extent of his power isn't obvious to the untrained eye.
British corporations are voting with their feet when it comes to the nation's tax rate and overall tax enforcement policies, a private groups says. The Confederation of British Industry, Britian's largest independent employers' group, re
The Justice Dept has begun an internal investigation into its handling of information gathered in the government's domestic spying program. However, Democrats criticized the review as not going far enough to determine whether the program
We know that the steel components were certified to ASTM E119. The time temperature curves for this standard require the samples to be exposed to temperatures around 2000F for several hours. And as we all agree, the steel applied met those specificat
Populist candidate defeats Washington-supported billionaire oligarch candidate in Ecuadoran run-off presidential election.
If you're a libertarian and are unaware, by now, that the world's premiere free market economist, Milton Friedman, died last week, it must be because you live in a cave or use the same Internet service I do.
With a history-making election behind us, and an equally crucial Presidential election looming, I want to say to my colleagues, comrades, and so-far-unindicted co-conspirators what I believe libertarians should be doing about it.
A Vermont District Court judge has rejected a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the power of police to search a private home, concluding that the state offers greater protections in such cases.
Drivers who get stopped by the police could have their fingerprints taken at the roadside, under a new plan to help officers check people's identities. A hand-held device being tested is linked to a database of 6.5m prints.
U.S. authorities brought terrorism charges against two men for providing satellite broadcasts of Hezbollah television channel al-Manar to U.S. customers, according to an indictment.
They will sue the North Vancouver RCMP after officers responded to their hang-up 911 call by breaking down their door, making a forceful arrest and jailing them overnight when the couple refused to allow a house-search.
The departing Republican majority in Congress is about to leave the nation a memorial to its own shameful history as the grand enabler of record debt and deficits. G.O.P. leaders are preparing to walk away from passing a budget.
ONE year before the invasion of Iraq, Australia's then ambassador to the UN, John Dauth, stated the Howard Government would participate in military action with the US to overthrow Saddam Hussein, new AWB documents reveal.
French soldiers in Lebanon who feel threatened by aggressive Israeli overflights are permitted to shoot at IAF fighter jets, a high-ranking French military officer told The Jerusalem Post.
The Iraq war was a boon for Israel's security, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said, voicing fresh endorsement for a Bush administration sapped by the unpopularity at home of its Middle East policies.
USC is No. 2 in the new Bowl Championship Series standings and, depending on your accent and your zip code, this is either good news or reason to blow up the system.
A draft report on strategies for Iraq, which will be debated here by a bipartisan commission, urges an aggressive regional diplomatic initiative that includes direct talks with Iran and Syria but sets no timetables for a military withdrawal, accordin
A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign that some say is an anti- Iraq war protest or a symbol of Satan.
An angry crowd demanded Sunday to know why police officers killed an unarmed man on the day of his wedding, firing dozens of shots that also wounded two of the man's friends. Some called for the ouster of the city's police commissioner.
Humpback whales have a type of brain cell seen only in humans, the great apes, and other cetaceans such as dolphins. Might mean such whales are more intelligent than they have been given credit for, and suggests complex brains evolved more than once
Ecuador's leftist Rafael Correa, an ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, appeared close to victory in Sunday's presidential run-off election after exit polls and unofficial counts showed he had surged ahead of his banana magnate rival.
Were a Russian journalist and an ex-KGB officer murdered over an investigation of the Beslan terrorist attack?
[trust us] 3 Democratic congressmen about to take leadership posts said they plan to pass popular legislation blocked by Republicans but would refrain from pushing some of the most controversial elements on the liberal agenda.
Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the prison's former U.S. commander said in an interview.
The Middle East faces the dire prospect not only of possible civil war in Iraq, but three separate civil wars in the region, King Abdullah II of Jordan has said, "whether it's the Palestinians, that of Lebanon or of Iraq."
The New York Times asked the Supreme Court to bar a federal prosecutor from reviewing the phone records of two of its reporters. The records would allow the government to learn the identities of many of the reporters’ confidential sources.
