Powell downbeat on Iraq

US Secretary of State Colin Powell has admitted the violence in Iraq is worsening, a harsher view of the insurgency...

What Presidents Said About the War Powers

"Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems in necessary for such purpose, and you allow him to make war at pleasure." Abraham Lincoln

We’re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore

Something has gone seriously haywire with the Republican Party. Once, it was the party of pragmatic Main Street businessmen in...

2004: It Is Not An 11 Point Race

The Republican National Convention is over and score it a huge success for President George W. Bush. For one solid...

Pundits weigh in on Bush’s UN speech

Chances are that if you read a few online news reports about Bush’s speech at the UN Tuesday, you came...

Republican Senators tell unpleasant truths

If you don’t want to hear a Democrat say that the situation in Iraq is deteriorating dangerously, listen to a...

Skeptical reaction meets Bush at UN

Despite an appearance before the General Assembly that was friendlier and more optimistic than any of his previous speeches to...

Soldiers threatened with Iraq deployment

Soldiers from a Fort Carson combat unit say they have been issued an ultimatum – re-enlist for three more years...

CBS says it can’t prove Bush documents’ authenticity

In a written statement, CBS said Bill Burkett, a retired National Guard lieutenant colonel, has admitted that he deliberately misled...

United States’ Illegal Occupation of Iraq

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan’s statement that the Bush administration’s decision to go to war in Iraq was illegal...