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It’s sobering, on this Memorial Day weekend, to read the chapters on Iraq in Colin Powell’s new book, to ponder the waste of soldiers’ lives that resulted from the peremptory decision to wage war on the basis of specious intelligence.
During this past primary election cycle, someone in Saline County where I live stole a circuit clerk candidate’s letterhead, typed an obviously fraudulent letter above her signature, and mailed it to someone, who then e-mailed it to others.
In a darkened room sits a man whom the American government says is a senior al Qaeda official. His interrogator, a long-serving CIA agent named Glenn Carle, thinks the man is far from a terrorist mastermind, but a bewildered halfwit. Carle's handlers tell him the man's silence proves he knows something, and insist "enhanced interrogation techniques" - many would say torture - will produce ...
After more than a decade busting corruption, Patrick Fitzgerald is stepping down. The federal prosecutor, known as "Eliot Ness with a Harvard degree," went after the Gambino crime family, al-Qaida and even the White House — not to mention two former Illinois governors who are now in jail.
Patrick Fitzgerald, the federal prosecutor who went after the Gambino crime family, al-Qaida and the White House in court — not to mention several Illinois politicians — is leaving his job as U.S. attorney in Chicago.
On Memorial Day , we will again honor Americans who died in service to their country. Many of these men and women were, of course, gay, serving under that shameful compromise known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," and in deeper secrecy before that.
Mary Matalin says Catholic institutions were right to sue the Obama administration over the new rule
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." This is the first line of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
WASHINGTON, 11 April 2003 — ”We’re there,’’ a Marine officer said last weekend as his unit arrived in Baghdad. “We’re the dog that caught the car. Now, what do we do with it?’’
WEST POINT — A mix of pride and jubilation radiated throughout Michie Stadium this morning as the 2012 commencement of the United States Military Academy at West Point got under way.
Political career next for son of Irish immigrant parents? The bane of the corrupt powerful and the well-connected, Illinois U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald has announced he is stepping down from his post next month after almost eleven years.
JEDDAH, 28 August — When asked by the editor in chief to write on the subject of the much-discussed document now known simply as the "Rand Report", the obvious question came to mind: What can be said that has not been said already?
There are more kinds of lies in politics than there are Inuit words for snow. And when Mitt Romney said the other day that he didn't have a short list for VP, he was telling a 'Washington lie,' a false statement meant to forestall further questions without actually deceiving anyone: 'We really haven't had a discussion yet of putting together a list or evaluating various candidates,' Romney said.
LEWISTON — If anybody knows the meaning of being a party of one, it's former U.S. Sen. Dean Barkley.
“Why do homosexuals bother you so much?” CNN's Brooke Baldwin asked antigay leader Tony Perkins. read more
The Daily Caller, the conservative website founded by Tucker Carlson, has launched an unusual publicity stunt to say the least: Now through Nov. 6—Election Day—the Washington, D.C.-based site will give away a handgun a week. The gun giveaway is part of the launch of a "Guns and Gear" section "devoted to Second Amendment issues and [...]
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