Hamid Karzai, then the great hope for Afghan democracy, addresses Congress in 2004. (White House Photo)
Last week, Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., took a long walk with Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai in the gardens of the presidential palace in Kabul. At…
CIA assassins have it easier in the movies.
So now we are told that shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Central Intelligence Agency began planning to unleash assassination teams on al-Qaida’s leadership, but for almost eight years, the…
It will be recalled that in 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney famously told Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill that the economic lesson of the Reagan administration had been that “deficits don’t matter.”
Democrats, who’d suddenly became deficit hawks during the economic boom…
Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame in 2006. MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images
Maureen Dowd’s column that will appear in the Thursday Post-Dispatch is a make-believe conversation between Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. She ends it with Cheney and Rumsfeld joking about getting President…
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History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
— Winston Churchill
In fact, he wrote 74 books. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney may wind up writing a couple themselves, but the president and the vice…
President George W. Bush pardoned a few people today and commuted a sentence. Read The New York Times story here. Nothing stands out in this list of pardons, with the notable exception of the posthumous pardon of Charles Winters, an…
Weird: Texas jury indicts Alberto Gonzales and Dick Cheney. Seriously. I am not making this up.
Joe Lieberman uses his get-out-of-jail-free card to escape serious retribution from the Democrats in the Senate over his campaign-season antics.
President-elect Barack Obama is serious about change.
Someone fell for…
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The nation is just past a historic and divisive election presidential campaign yet the predictable partisan chatter has fully blossomed.
The beltway jockeying between the parties quickly took root - more than two months before Inauguration Day. So who cares and what’s new? Birds still…
Sometime this week, the Bush administration is expected, for the first time, to make public its case for holding detainees at the military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Think about that: At one point, as many as 700 individuals were held…
In warfare, it’s generally not a good idea to prepare for the last war. With hurricanes, this time at least, the opposite was true.
Federal, state and local disaster officials spent the weekend preparing for Hurricane Gustav as if the storm…
