Dobson preaches mixed message Conservative leader criticizes, praises GOP leadership Standing before an enormous American flag in Mellon Arena, conservative evangelical activist James Dobson told thousands of supporters he was deeply disappointed in the nation’s Republican leadership, but that the nation’s future depended on re-electing them. "I have flat-out been ticked at Republicans for the […]
civil war n. A war between factions or regions of the same country. A state of hostility or conflict between elements within an organization: “The broadcaster is in the midst of a civil war that has brought it to the brink of a complete management overhaul” (Bill Powell). Civil War The war in the United […]
Snow, Gonzales to speak alongside Coulter, Falwell [Tony] Snow follows in the steps of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who raised eyebrows last month when he agreed to speak at the "Values Voter Summit" held by the controversial Family Research Council–an organization that has most recently been linked to a push to prosecute for hotel pornography. […]
CIA ‘refused to operate’ secret jails The Bush administration had to empty its secret prisons and transfer terror suspects to the military-run detention centre at Guantánamo this month in part because CIA interrogators had refused to carry out further interrogations and run the secret facilities, according to former CIA officials and people close to the […]
Dick Cheney, Vice President Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, under indictment John Bolton, Ambassador to the U.N. Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank Douglas Feith, George Washington University Michael Ledeen, Freedom Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
Corn and Isakoff’s book, Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War, revives Laurie Mylroie, the darling of the American Enterprise Institute during the years when the neoconservatives there were fomenting their Bush Doctrine and the War in Iraq. She was a strong proponent of the Saddam/Terrorist ties and […]
Book Pictures Judith Miller ‘Excited’ On Eve of Iraq War "On the eve of war in Washington, journalists and others gathered at a cocktail party at the home of Philip Taubman, the Washington bureau chief of the New York Times, to celebrate his new book on high-tech espionage during the Eisenhower years. Judy Miller was […]
Canadian Was Falsely Accused, Panel Says After Tip From Ally, U.S. Sent Muslim to Syria for Questioning The inquiry, which focused on the Canadian intelligence services, found that agents who were under pressure to find terrorists after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, falsely labeled an Ottawa computer consultant, Maher Arar, as a dangerous radical. […]
At the least, we’ve learned in the last few years to read when Bush is about to do something ridiculous from his speeches. Back in 2002, who would have known that a speech to the graduating class at West Point would be his announcement of a new foreign policy that he would actually put into […]