Are any of the candidates in tomorrow's presidential primaries in Florida running advertisements criticizing the Iraq war? Are any of the candidates making opposition to the Iraq war their premier issue? Is the antiwar issue being raised in the media or in Q & A...
The intellectual bootlickers surrounding Bush have apparently persuaded him that he is the reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln.  Fox News recently had unprecedented access to Bush to produce a documentary to air on Sunday night: ““George W. Bush: Fighting to the...
Unfortunately, I don't live in Michigan [!] - but I'm curious on the big vote on Tuesday -  How are the presidential candidates playing the Iraq war issue in the Michigan primary? Are any candidates running radio or TV ads explicitly opposing or supporting the...
CNN crunched the exit poll data from yesterday's New Hampshire primary and found that "among the 34 percent [of Republican primary voters] who said they disapproved of the war, McCain had a wide advantage over the GOP field — even over Texas Rep. Ron Paul, the sole...
Ron Paul is the only non-Armageddon presidential candidate among the Republicans. He is the only person who staunchly opposes a massive first strike against Iran because of its alleged nuclear program. He has long been ridiculed for his aversion to preemptive...
Australian voters kicked Prime Minister John Howard out of office yesterday. Howard was even more of a groveler to Bush than Tony Blair. One step Bush took to try to help Howard win reelection was to release Australian David Hicks from Guantanamo earlier this...
Some supporters of Ron Paul’s presidential campaign may not know that congressman Paul was a champion of civil liberties even in the era before the U.S. government legalized torture. Paul won the Szasz Award for Outstanding Contributions to Civil Liberties in...
My essay on "The FBI's Right to Threaten Torture" has been deftly refuted by Bob Weir, the editor of The News Connection down in Texas.  Here is the response he sent The Future of Freedom Foundation: "Keep your eyes on this case, because it could help determine how...
The good folks at the Future of Freedom Foundation kindly forwarded some of the lively responses they received after sending out my op-ed, "Are Presidents Entitled to Kill Foreigners?" I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure all these editors decided not to publish...
Bush today vigorously opposed a congressional resolution to finally recognize as genocide the Turkish slaughter of more than a million Armenian Christians. Bush declared: "We all deeply regret the tragic suffering of the Armenian people that began in 1915. This...
