Updated at 10:25 p.m. EDT, June 13, 2008At least 20 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 14 more were wounded in the latest violence. It is the prayer day, so reports are lighter than usual. Two American deaths were reported. The DOD reported that a U.S. soldier died...
The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power Gene Healy Cato Institute, 2008 367 pp. By Doug Bandow American liberty is dying. For years the process has been slow strangulation, as successive Congresses and presidents, irrespective of...
The recent exchange between the McCain and Obama campaigns over the GOP candidate's remarks to Matt Lauer have underscored the central issue of this presidential election year and framed the campaign in terms of a single, overriding issue: the future of the American...
If you thought things were bad, with a barrel of crude oil at $136 and the oil heartlands of our planet verging on chaos, don't be surprised, but you may still have something to look forward to. Alexei Miller, chairman of Russia's vast state-owned energy monopoly,...
With 223 days left in his presidency, George W. Bush laid more flagstones along a path to war on Iran. There was the usual declaration that "all options are on the table" – and, just as ominously, much talk of diplomacy. Three times on Wednesday, the...
President George W. Bush used to complain that being president was "hard work," but he has gotten over that. Now he says it "has been a fabulous experience." Why fabulous? Well, a good part of it has to do with his past. When Bush screwed up royally – whether in...
The following is based on a talk delivered on Saturday, June 7, 2008, at the Future of Freedom Foundation's conference, Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties, in Reston, Virgina. We are used to hearing discussion of political issues boiled down to...
The killings Tuesday night by US warplanes of 11 Pakistani paramilitary soldiers at or near a checkpoint along the Afghan border is virtually certain to add to growing tensions between Washington and Islamabad at a critical moment in relations between both countries....
Updated at 11:25 p.m. EDT, June 12, 2008Baghdad was again rocked by a series of bombings today, while two U.S. servicemembers were killed. Across Iraq, at least 18Iraqis were killed and 60 more were wounded. Two Egyptian gunmen were also killed. An American soldier...
Intelligence [sic] Committee Report Gordon Prather, Congratulations and thank you for being the first writer to provide a link to the actual report [.pdf] in your comments. I had found it for myself via Google searching, but nowhere in the many articles I've read on...
