As mentioned earlier, the Web is abuzz with talk of the Libertarian Purity Test. Let's forget the purity bit for a minute and talk about the ideas. My main gripe is that everyone seems to be posting scores instead of talking about specific areas of assent/dissent,...
A U.S. food subcontractor that runs 10% of the dining facilities in Iraq says it hasn't been paid by a Halliburton Co. subsidiary for months and is threatening to stop serving hot meals to U.S. troops stationed there, NBC News reported Monday. The company, Event...
It's all the rage. Try it.
I'm referring, of course, to Victor Davis Hanson's two hour appearance on C-Span's Book TV Sunday evening. After reading his essays in National Review for some time, I was paying close attention to the corners of his mouth for rivulets of foam. All in vain, since...
Top Iraqi scientists, led by Jafar Dhia Jafar, who is known as the father of Iraq’s nuclear programme, said that UN inspectors had “reached total conviction” that Iraq was free of nuclear weapons before the US invasion of Iraq, yet failed to convey that information...
BAGHDAD (AFX) The spiritual guide of Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has called the country's new transitional law an obstacle to a permanent constitution. AP reports Al Sistani has issued a fatwa : "Any law prepared for the transitional...
14 dead, 80 wounded on one side, no casualties on the other side. By any definition that's a massacre. Well, by any definition except when it's the world's press talking about Israeli atrocities against Palestinians. Please note that while the Israelis may be correct...
The Arab people are notorious for disagreeing about everything, the recent botched "constitution" signing in Baghdad, for example. Or the Arab Summit in Egypt where Libyan leader Moamer al-Kadhafi asked Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, "Who exactly brought you...
CBS/AP reports BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) After a power struggle with the U.S. State Department, the Pentagon has won control over most of a $18.4 billion aid package for Iraq, and rebuilding delayed for a month will start this week, U.S. officials in Baghdad said Sunday....
It's not only soldiers who suffer from PTSD, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which used to be called "battle fatigue," but anyone who has ever experienced first-hand the terrors of warfare or tragedies of horrific proportion is just as susceptible. In her journal,...
