From The Jewish Week: President George W. Bush will do better among Jewish voters in November than he did in 2000, even though Jews are much less supportive of his Iraq and anti-terror policies than other Americans. And former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, who hopes to be...
USA Today's star foreign correspondent, Jack Kelley, landed in hot water over fabricating a story about a journal purporting to "prove" Serbs were "ethnically cleansing" Kosovo. After an internal investigation, Kelley resigned from the paper. Case closed? Hardly. The...
Monday's column has generated a lot of reader response. It has also gotten plugged by the Christian Science Monitor, FAIR, and Jim Henley.
While enjoying my breakfast coffee this morning, my day was further brightened upon reading an entry by Lew Rockwell at his blog referencing the following New York Times book review by Michiko Kakutani of David Frum and Richard Perle's new warmongering little classic....
While all Iraqis are suffering as a result of this totally unnecessary war, Iraqis of Palestinian descent are perhaps worse off than most of their countrymen. Jo Wilding gives a brief first-hand account of what their lives are like now: She lives in a tent with UNHCR...
Victoria Schofield, a specialist on South Asia, is the author of "Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia." In this commentary for the Daily Star (Lebanon), she discusses the tense and dangerous border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan and how it has...
A Halliburton whistleblower gets fired for trying to spare American soldiers from food poisoning. Don't read this just before eating. "On July, 17, 2003, Heather Yarbrough flew to Kuwait to start a new job: monitoring the quality and safety of food served to soldiers...
From the Sunday Montgomery [Ala.] Advertiser: Davis Tops List for Perk Trips Rep. Artur Davis, D-Birmingham, accepted trips from special interests that cost nearly $13,000. Davis flew to Israel, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Pittsburgh. Davis' weeklong trip...
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. ~ Ernest Hemingway
Speaking of the "capture" theory, Daniel McCarthy sends in this item from the print version of National Review, Jan. 26 issue: Former Marine Corps general Anthony C. Zinni is a critic of the Iraq war. Saddam Hussein "was contained," Zinni told the Washington Post in a...
