Cheney

In early 2007, The Nation published an extraordinary speech by Bill Moyers. In "A New Story for America," America's media conscience wrote of how "voters have provided a a respite from a right-wing radicalism predicated on the philosophy that extremism in the pursuit of virtue is no vice." Newt...

A lot of people, not including me, believe that bad things happen to good people because God wants to test them. According to the Hebrew Bible, God wanted to see whether Abraham was willing to obey His command to slaughter his son Isaac; and whether Job, a thoroughly innocent man,...

Even after all of this time and President Bush's own abandonment of the WMD theme, Vice President Richard Cheney is still convinced that there are hidden WMDs in the Middle East...

Ask yourself, would you rather go duck-hunting with Hillary Clinton or Dick Cheney? While the vice president might shoot you in the face, Hillary would plaster your backside with buckshot.

With Obama always visible in her campaign's sniper scope, she has never hesitated to pull the trigger whenever she recognized...

World civilization is based on oil. The world is running out of oil. The oil companies and governments are not telling the truth about how close we are to the end. Dick Cheney knew about peak oil back in 1999 when he spoke to the London Petroleum Institute as Halliburton...

Thus endeth another Petraeus week on Capitol Hill.

I have to say, I was impressed at the caliber of the questions asked, but severely disappointed at the caliber of the answers given. The latter is no real surprise, but the former is indeed an improvement.

Before I begin handing out...

Five years ago today the U.S. media and administration officials who plotted the invasion of Iraq celebrated the fall of Baghdad while expressing few fears about the future. "We're all neo-cons now!" crowed Chris Matthews on MSNBC. Joe Scarborough, also on MSNBC, declared, "I'm waiting to hear the words, 'I...

When Barack Obama was endorsed by Jay Rockefeller in late February, it was considered a feather in his national security cap because the senator from West Virginia is the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Rockefeller, however, as he told the editors of the Charleston Gazette (W. Va.) Monday,...

When Gen. Petreaus and Amb. Crocker appear before both houses of Congress tomorrow and Thursday, Democrats should ideally position themselves through these hearings to achieve the following overarching goals:

-- Debunk the fiction that the military surge has achieved sustainable military or political objectives.

-- Undermine Sen. McCain's argument that...

We haven't done a contest here in a while, so I'm going to open the betting window today on the outcome of the Democratic race. To play, just post a comment with the date and the outcome you predict will happen.

As an example, here is my entry: Hillary Clinton...

In an interview for this Sunday's New York Times Magazine, former Bush administration Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill is asked what he thinks of Sen. John McCain's confession that his grasp of economics is faint. "Yeah," he replies. "That's a great place to start from, isn't it?"

Asked about McCain's "straight...

Today is a somber reminder, a commemoration of the men and women who have died in military service to this country. Not numbers. Men and women.

4,000 souls lost. This president has assured us that their sacrifice was not made in vain. Vice...