AP reports:Addressing advice the White House got suggesting torture might be allowed for some terrorist interrogations, President Bush said Friday he ordered U.S. officials to act consistent with law and international treaties. "What I authorized was staying within...

Grand Kremlin Palace. Moscow. 6/1/88 Gorbachev did. Lew Rockwell comments:I still remember the horrified faces of George H.W. Bush and his consigliere, James Baker, when the Berlin Wall came down. There followed a few bad years for the US superstate, with no foreign...

From SignOnSanDiego:The yellow ribbon tied around the tower of the County Administration Center has faded. Wind, rain and pollution, especially from last fall's wildfires, have taken their toll on the salute to U.S. troops. County supervisors installed the...

Mea culpa. In yesterday's column I referred to my dad as the only delegate at the 1980 Republican National Convention to vote against George H.W. Bush for vice president. Not true, he informed me; he was the first to announce he was going to do so, and the only...

Shiite gunmen seized a police station in the holy city of Najaf and held it for two hours Thursday in the first outbreak of fighting since an agreement to end weeks of bloody clashes between U.S. troops and militia forces. Four Iraqis were killed and 13 were injured,...

BBC reports: Iraq's new Oil Minister Thamir Ghadhban has reportedly said that all coalition advisers will leave Iraqi ministries after the 30 June handover. Quoted by the UK's Financial Times, he said that the ministry would reassert full control over the country's...

Here's a bizarre post by a person named Clayton Cramer that I wandered across. It's titled "The Sheer Injustice Of It!" and he has linked an article about some lawyer who claims to be representing Saddam Hussein making allegations that the US has tortured Saddam while...

On Sunday, AP reported that the US military is "lowering its profile" in order "to avoid alienating its Iraqi allies who take power at the end of the month." The military has been criticised for it "heavy-handed tactics," hence the...

I find it funny that the Bush campaign has chosen to highlight the same Reagan speech I alluded to in my column today; I find it downright hilarious that they titled the speech "Empire of Ideals." What did Reagan say about empire in the speech?There was a time when...

Mark at Rafah Kid Rambles: The Guardian today has a story about Sharon losing his majority after two ministers quit in protest at his plan to pull Jewish settlers out of the Gaza Strip. Sharon looks as if he is battling heroically with the far right to withdraw from...