On the 9th anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution President George Washington gave to his cabinet his farewell address. He also had it printed in the Philadelphia Daily American Advertiser primarily to let everyone know that he
On this date back in 1836, the Alamo fell. For more than 13 days, 186 brave and determined patriots withstood Santa Anna's seasoned army of over 4,000 troops.
A US Army medic who refused to return to Iraq because of his opposition to the war was convicted of desertion at his court martial Tueday, and could face as long as seven years in prison. Spc Agustin Aguayo, whose case has been closely
The jury rejected Mr. Libby's claims of memory lapses as it convicted him of obstruction of justice, giving false statements to the F.B.I. and perjuring himself, charges embodied in four of the five counts of the indictment.
Find yourself a copy of the US Constitution. Perhaps you have a copy handy on your bookshelf, otherwise you can just look it up online. A lot of Libertarians will hold up the Constitution as a great and sacred document, a kind of a political Garden
Tony Lagouranis doesn't fit the profile of a person likely to go wrong by following orders. He's lived a footloose life unconstrained by a desire for professional advancement, for the approval of superiors, even for a comfortable home.
There are some strange facts about the asset and trade positions of the US economy in the globalizing economy. The US runs massive and growing trade deficits, is borrowing at a clip that would arouse the suspicions of a casino pit boss,
Iran offered Tuesday to clear up suspicions about its disputed nuclear activities if the Security Council ends its "interference," in an apparent attempt to head off new sanctions for its refusal to freeze uranium enrichment.
Armed with fresh intelligence, the CIA is moving additional man power and equipment into Pakistan in the effort to find Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al Zawahri, US officials tell ABC News. "Reports that the trail has gone stone cold are
Vice President Dick Cheney, who during one of his many trips to Saudi Arabia in the 1990s on behalf of Halliburton secretly converted to Wahabbi Islam, a rigorous fundamentalist version of the faith.
The John McCain presidency effectively began on January 10, 2007, when George W. Bush announced the deployment of five more combat brigades to Iraq. This escalation of an unpopular war ran counter to the advice of Bush’s senior military leadership, i
The US military in Afghanistan defended the erasing of media photographs and video after an incident which left up to 10 civilians dead, saying this was allowed in "extreme circumstances." Photographers and cameramen working for internation
I was scared out of my wits that first day in Ramadi. Our own air force had just finished bombing these people, but as soon as we got out of our vehicles we began patrolling their streets, on foot. With nearly 100 lb. of weaponry, equipment and
ON NEW YEAR'S EVE in 2003, I was seized at the border of Serbia and Macedonia by Macedonian police who mistakenly believed that I was traveling on a false German passport. I was detained incommunicado for more than three weeks. Then I was handed
Mr. Bush was Xerxes, the Persian emperor who led his force against Greek’s city states in 480 B.C., unleashing an army on a small country guarded by fanatical guerilla fighters so he could finish a job his father had left undone.
My wife Rebecca and I have spent the last seven years of our lives pouring our hearts, minds, and financial resources into Radio Paradise. We are now faced with the very real possibility that all of our efforts will have been in vain, and that
Mr Makino was stationed there during the war. What he never told anybody, including his wife, was that during the 4 months before Japan's defeat in March 1945, he vivisected 10 Filipino prisoners of war, including two teenage girls. He cut out th
The National Security Whistleblowers Coalition obtained a copy of an official complaint filed by a veteran FBI Special Agent, Gilbert Graham, with the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General. Report the violation of the Foreign Intellig
Joshua Key spent eight months as a U.S. soldier in Iraq. After reading this excerpt from his newly published book The Deserter’s Tale, I’m moved to ask an uncomfortable question. But first, a snippet:
We should have known it was coming. Even though the Democratic Party rode the antiwar wave in to Congress last November, they've done little since to end the bloody war in Iraq. Just last week House Democrats met to discuss how best to halt Bush*
The imperial presidency has regularly run circles around an ever weaker Congress. Now, once again, we find ourselves at a moment where the public seems increasingly eager for Congress to rein in an out-of-control White House and its increasingly cata
Former Iranian deputy defense minister vanished about a month ago on his way from Damascus to Turkey. Iranian officials say Mossad, CIA may have been involved in his disappearance
“Are those the fish you got back?” Donna Perkins asked Cuong Ly, the owner.
“Yes, they’re back,” Mr. Ly said, beaming at the fish, whose round mouths smacked as Ms. Perkins touched the aquarium glass. “They want to talk to you.”
Rep. Heather A. Wilson (R-N.M.) acknowledged that she contacted a federal prosecutor to complain about the pace of his public corruption investigations, as the Senate ethics committee signaled that it had opened a preliminary inquiry into a similar c
A spectacularly quirky creature with long, curved spines protruding from its armored body prowled the ocean floor half a billion years ago near the dawn of complex life forms on Earth, scientists said.
Some of the Guantanamo prisoners have been unlawfully detained for more than five years and deserve at least a hearing on their challenge to their confinement, their attorneys said in an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A coalition airstrike destroyed a mud-brick home north of Kabul after a rocket attack on a U.S. base, killing nine people from four generations of an Afghan family, including a 6-month old baby, officials and relatives said. [Their fault.]