There are questions emerging over Tony Blair's appointment as the Quartet's (the UN, the EU, the US and Russia) Middle East envoy. The uncertainties start with funding, who is paying the bills for the former British prime minister's new
President Bush's speech last week arguing that the US must stay in Iraq to defeat the Al Qaeda leadership reassembling there ranks as one of his most vacuous. It drew on intelligence that was conveniently (and perhaps selectively) declassified i
Some people think that government can fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while remaining limited and unintrusive at home. Conservatives dubiously insist that a robustly interventionist foreign policy can coexist with a free-market domestic policy. Bu
The Transportation Security Agency's national security bulletin issued was based on bogus examples that were combined to give the impression of ominous terrorist plotting, CNN reports.
The White House Friday called relations with Saudi Arabia in the US war on terror on "very strong" despite a report saying Washington is deeply frustrated with Riyadh over its role in Iraq. The Saudis are trying to undermine the Baghdad gov
The Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve an arms sale package for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors that is expected to total $20 billion at a time when officials contend that the Saudis are playing a counterproductive role in Ira
Joshua Frank, co-editor of DissidentVoice.org and author of "Left-Out!: How Liberals Helped Re-elect George W. Bush", discusses the impending global tyranny of a Hillary Clinton administration, her association with war criminals, the sad fa
I know that being a lame duck can make presidents act strangely, and this president has never had anything more than a nodding relationship with reality itself, let alone a deep-seated concern for truth. But it seems to me that President Bush has bec
Its support for Israel derives from the belief that Jesus will return to Jerusalem after the battle of Armageddon and cleanse the earth of evil. In the end, all non-believers–Jews, Muslims, Hindus, mainline Christians–must convert or suffer the tortu
Kazakhstan and Georgia are among countries imposing excessive restrictions on how people use the Internet, a new report says, warning that regulations are having a chilling effect on freedom of expression.
A 2004 dispute over the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance program that led top Justice Department officials to threaten resignation involved computer searches through massive electronic databases, according to officials briefed on the pr
Former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson convincingly won the Georgetown County Republican Party presidential primary straw poll today with 46% of the votes, while second place finisher Congressman Ron Paul had 18% and
Ernest tells us about his trip to South Carolina and Iowa and all of the behind the scenes stories about how politics and the Iowa Straw Poll really works.
A deep split has emerged within al-Qa'eda over the wisdom of the terror network's drive to overthrow and kill Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf, according to radical Pakistani Islamists allied to the terror network.
American reconstruction projects in Iraq are ending up in the hands of untrained locals or demanding even more money from American taxpayers than originally ventured, reports the New York Times in its Saturday, July 28 edition.
Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton told college Democrats on Saturday she would create a national academy to train public servants. "I'm going to be asking a new generation to serve," she said. "I think just like our m
US President George W. Bush on Saturday called for Congress to revise a US security law in order to ease restrictions on the government's secret communications surveillance of terror suspects. Amid furor over Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
During the Democratic debate in South Carolina, I heard something I never expected to hear: Hillary Clinton coming out against US military intervention. At least I think she was coming out against US military intervention.
Reagan got his shot because of new technology: his famous TV speech, late in the Goldwater campaign, which was paid for by the Goldwater campaign. It has been known ever since as "The Speech." It is a good speech on paper. On radio, it was powerful
A couple who said they were protesting the state of the country by flying the U.S. flag upside down with signs pinned to it found themselves in jail following a scuffle with a deputy Wednesday morning.
The Orange County Superior Court signed a $1.5 million contract in March 2006 to hand over half-a-million traffic tickets every year to Cal Coast Data Entry (CCDE) in Nogales, Mexico. Don't worry though, Sonoran police promise every processor goe
[BRING IT ON!] Ron Paul, a congressman from Texas, delivered a tirade against his version of neoconservatism. He called it "Neo-Conned!" A considerable part of it is devoted to his version of my writings, and is so inaccurate, so dis
Relations between the top US general in Iraq and Nouri al-Maliki, the country's prime minister, are so bad that the Iraqi leader made a direct appeal for his removal to President George W Bush. Although the call was rejected, aides to both men a
Congressional negotiators have agreed on legislation that would tie US aid to Pakistan to significant progrss by Islamabad in cracking down on al-Qaeda, the Taliban and other militants, congressional sources said on Thursday.
A new report reveals the US government turned down offers of help from across the globe in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, telling one diplomat "human assistance of any kind is not on our priorities list." The report from Citizens for
What has cost the US taxpayers almost half a trillion dollars, and now costs $275 million every day, $11 million each hour, $191,000 every minute, and $3,180 each second? If you answered, "The war in Iraq," then you are right.
A wonderful example of fake news being passed off as real. Every aspect of this story is fake, fair-game, and unbalanced. Reminds me of Pravda articles I used to read as a kid back in the Cold War.
Republican congressman from Texas(and 1988 Libertarian Party presidential candidate) Ron Paul seems to be doing pretty good for libertarianism these days. He's gotten more press exposure and more Internet buzz than any libertarian