I’m no scholar on Honduras, to say the least, so I’ll assume the basic facts regarding recent events are in accord with this opinion piece calling for ousted President Manuel Zelaya’s reinstatement: Zelaya’s fatal mistake was in organizing a de facto referendum to test the idea of allowing him a second term. Honduras’s Constitution explicitly [...]
Was the “Good War†– World War II – Unnecessary? Sure would mess up a lot of people’s favorite slogans if it was… The Future of Freedom Foundation‘s Anthony Gregory reviews Pat Buchanan’s Churchill, Hitler and “The Unnecessary War”: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World in three parts. Part one. [...]
President Obama issued his statement on the United Nations International Day in Support of Torture Victims. I wonder if Obama’s ghostwriter was wearing hip boots when this statement was put together. The opening of his statement could have been recycled from the George W. Bush years: “Torture is contrary to the founding documents of our [...]
A piece we ran in Viewpoints yesterday, “Iran’s Election Drama More Elaborate Than You Think,” indicated that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a former member of the Revolutionary Guards. This was incorrect (see this for details). We regret the error. On a less clear-cut matter, I received the following e-mail from Halliburton’s PR department: FOR [...]
“Who is at the helm? The way Iran is acting up, and what about weather catastrophes? Hopefully no decision has to be made.” – South Carolina state Sen. Jake Knotts (R-Lexington), Tuesday, on then-missing Gov. Mark Sanford
Looking at Margaret and Jason’s close monitoring of the continued bloodshed in Iraq– something like 300 Iraqis dead in bombings since last Monday — it’s becoming clear that nothing short of a nuclear bomb dropped on the Green Zone will get administration officials and their supporters in the Washington military establishment to acknowledge that something [...]
