Drawing on his foreign policy and military expertise, Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, has called for a military surge in America, similar to the one he claims has turned around the situation in Iraq.
“Let’s put 30,000 fine young soldiers on the ground right here at home,” the More…
This is the ninth in a series: The Rise of the Counterinsurgents
Insurgents pour north from the barely-guarded Pakistan border to the southeast, through Paktika Province, in the heart of Pashtun-controlled eastern Afghanistan. Their objective, according to the U.S. military command, is to attack the capitol city of Kabul, More…
Forty years ago, in September 1968, the North Vietnamese launched the Tet offensive — which changed mainstream America’s view of the Vietnam War. In living rooms across the nation, Americans saw a gruesome display of how powerless the United States forces looked as they struggled to gain control over a More…
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, is busy vacuuming the house and can’t hear the many interview requests from national media sources that have poured in since her surprise selection, a McCain campaign spokesperson explained today.
“The governoress will be too preoccupied with More…
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — Usually when you hear about cross-border attacks here, they are perpetrated by the Taliban. Not so much in recent weeks — this time it’s the U.S. dipping its toes into Pakistan, which Sen. John McCain has said Sen. Barack Obama is naive for proposing.
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As The Washington Post previewed this morning, Citizens for Responsibility for Ethics, a watchdog group, along with two historians and three historical organizations, filed a lawsuit in U.S. district court this afternoon against the office of Vice President Dick Cheney and Allen Weinstein, head of the National Archives. More…
Speaking to the Canasta Club of Greater Alaska at its monthly pot-luck dinner, Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate, drew on her own hard-won political experience to spell out an agenda for moving America forward over the next four years.
Palin called for a Neighborhood Watch, just like More…
Sen. John McCain, the presumed Republican nominee, rose to national prominence in part by taking on his fellow Republicans, particularly on the disgraceful “K-Street” project — a conscious embrace of business lobbyists reminiscent of the Harding administration. More recently, he broke ranks with the More…
That’s what the uber-lobbyist’s lawyers argue: his 5-year, 10-month prison sentence should be reduced because of cooperation in FBI probes. According to the Washington Post, the Justice Dept. seems to agree.
The Bush administration comes to an end in January, but Environmental Protection Agency officials may be defending themselves in court well after that. There are now three pending lawsuits against EPA’s global warming policies, after twelve states announced that they are suing the environmental agency for not curbing greenhouse More…
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