Of the seven wonders of the ancient Mediterranean world, including the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Colossus of Rhodes, four were destroyed by earthquakes, two by fire. Only the Great Pyramid of Giza today remains. We no longer know who built those fabled...
Justin is traveling, his column will be back on Monday. It was 40 years ago this June 8 that the USS Liberty – a large, armorless, refitted freighter that was gathering intelligence in the Mediterranean at the outset of the Six Day War – was attacked by...
Has Congress given George Bush a green light to attack Iran? For he is surely behaving as though it is his call alone. And evidence is mounting that we are on a collision course for war: Iran has detained several Iranian-Americans, seemingly in retaliation for our...
BAGHDAD - A massacre by members of Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi army on Sunni worshippers earlier this month sparked clashes between patrolling Kurdish militiamen in southwest Baghdad and the Mahdi army, raising tensions that fighting between the groups could...
Rep. Jimmy Duncan (R-Tenn.) is considered one of the most conservative members of Congress – the American Conservative Union gives him a lifetime score of 88 out of 100. But that doesn't mean Duncan always goes along with the Bush administration. In fact, when it...
The Bush administration has blown chances to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, to win wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and now to have any chance of maintaining a stable nuclear-armed Pakistan. Like U.S. policy toward the shah's Iran in the 1960s and 1970s, the Bush...
Updated at 11:45 p.m. EDT, May 29, 2007At least 13 new U.S. servicemember deaths were reported today, making May the bloodiest month since 2004. So far, at least 116 Americans were killed in Iraq in May, including 10 who were killed on Memorial Day. Several Westerners...
It's the season of political makeovers, what with Hillary Clinton, former Warrior Princess, now turning herself into La Pasionaria of the antiwar movement, and Mitt Romney, her probable opponent in the race for the White House, transforming his previous Rockefeller...
Updated at 12:45 a.m EDT, May 29, 2007At least 123 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 233 were killed in violent events. The most significant incident was a bombing at a Sunni shrine in Baghdad. No foreign deaths were reported, but May has been one of the bloodiest...
Updated at 11:59 p.m. EDT, May 27, 2007At least 94 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and another 55 Iraqis were wounded during violent events. However, the day’s biggest news was the rescue of 42 hostages from a suspected al-Qaeda hideout northeast of...
