As was expected, President George W. Bush commuted the sentences of two border patrol guards, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who had been sentenced to more than 10 years in jail for seriously wounding a suspected drug runner. They now are…
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…
Take your pick. Does the headline refer to the presidential campaign or the economy?
A Saturday New York Times story looked at the relationship (or lack thereof) between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers, the founder of the 60s radical group the Weather Underground.…
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Below, you’ll find transcripts from two television interviews that aired last week. One comes from the interview of Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, by “CBS Evening News” anchor Katie Couric. The other…
“A passionate attachment of one Nation for another produces a variety of evils,” said George Washington in his farewell address in 1796. Mere sympathy for that other country can create the “illusion” that our interests are the same, he said,…
Does anything short of military action against Russia amount to appeasement? Does Georgia deserve help since Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili triggered the conflict by moving troops into the province under dispute? In an oped in the International Herald Tribune, Salome…
This was originally tacked onto the end of my last post on Russia and Georgia, but I decided it deserved a separate post:
The prospective presidential candidates have, of course, reacted to the situation in Georgia and weighed in on how…
With a cease-fire deal between Russia and Georgia progressing, here’s a look at some reactions to the strategic and geopolitical consequences that could come as a result of this conflict.
The Wall Street Journal’s Garry Kasparov wrote today that the West’s appeasement…
Armies plan carefully and train to fight with precision and discipline. But once the shooting starts, and the fog of war rolls in, all bets are off.
That’s important to bear in mind as President George W. Bush ponders his next…
However it may dismay Americans to watch Russian tanks rolling over a tiny, democratic U.S. ally, you have to hand it to Putin — the invasion of Georgia was nothing short of brilliant.
The groundwork for this invasion was meticulously laid…
It was a case of ironic timing that seemed almost surreal: On the very same day that the awe-inspiring opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic games was supposed to announce in spectacular fashion the start of an athletic competition symbolizing…
