A recent Washington Post article avers “a clear majority now saying for the first time that the war has not made the United States safer, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released last week. The poll indicates that people are not so much gung-ho in favor of the...
0 Comments | Posted June 13, 2005 | 4:58 PM
Eugene Volokh thinks former Rep. Paul Findley made a “substantial” error when he attributed to her an admission that the U.S. has an “Israel-centric” foreign policy. I can’t imagine that she ever said any such thing – after all, in her confirmation hearing she wouldn’t even admit...
0 Comments | Posted June 13, 2005 | 4:07 AM
When a top Pentagon analyst walked in on a luncheon meeting of two Washington lobbyists, and a top official from the embassy of a Middle Eastern country, and proceeded to reveal highly classified information, the FBI’s counterintelligence unit just happened to be listening in on the conversation: they had...
0 Comments | Posted June 11, 2005 | 6:19 PM
The idea that the Ground Zero memorial is being “hijacked” by a bunch of left-wing “prograndists” is itself propaganda. Michael Smerconish echoes the complaint of one Debra Burlingame, who doesn’t like it that “the people who are going to run this building are the same people who are...
0 Comments | Posted June 10, 2005 | 7:39 PM
The deaths of Captain Phillip T. Esposito and Lieutenant Louis E. Allen, on Tuesday, near Tikrit, may be the definitive argument in favor of the view that this war is another Vietnam -- or worse. A report by CNN, just out, notes "the U.S. Army disclosed that it...
0 Comments | Posted June 10, 2005 | 3:59 PM
0 Comments | Posted June 10, 2005 | 5:33 AM
Who are we fighting in Iraq? The face of the enemy has changed over the years, at least if we take the official U.S. government line seriously. At first they were just a few “dead-enders,” according to Donald Rumsfeld, who once compared insurgent attacks to the routine violence that...

0 Comments | Posted June 15, 2005 | 12:32 AM