News Source: Salon
| about 22 hours ago
So you think it's only terrorist-appeasing lefties who are down on Pentagon profligacy?...Now name the leader who said this: "(W)e cannot track $2.3 trillion in (Pentagon spending) ... We maintain 20 to 25 percent more base infrastructure than we
News Source: The Daily Star
| 1 day ago
Britain’s Tony Blair may have swung behind US calls for regime change in Iraq after meeting President George W. Bush at his Texas ranch in 2002, a top diplomat told an inquiry into the war on Thursday. Christopher Meyer, then Britain’s
News Source: The Guardian
| 2 days ago
George Bush's administration was seen by many as "running out of steam" on the eve of the "great atrocity" of the 9/11 attacks on the United States, Britain's ambassador at the time, Sir Christopher Meyer, told the Iraq inquiry in London today.
News Source: Lodi News-Sentinel
| 2 days ago
Randy and Stacy Beintema are very thankful — today and every day. Their 27-year-old son, Nick, is alive and well in San Antonio, Texas...He lost a leg in the attack, had his jaw broken in four places, suffered a concussion and underwent numerous
News Source: Kansas.com
| 3 days ago
Rep. Todd Tiahrt has asked the House Armed Services Committee to advance legislation to allow the Medal of Honor to be awarded to Father Emil Kapaun, the Kansan who became a Korean War hero. The House and Senate must pass legislation waiving the
News Source: The independent
| 5 days ago
Even so, Ed Balls has not yet succeeded in suppressing either the teaching of history or mankind's curiosity about the past...As he attempts to transmute complexity into narrative, John Chilcot may come to rely on the three Cs: chronology, commentary
News Source: Kansas City Star
| 6 days ago
The famous row house on C Street Southeast where South Carolina’s disgraced governor, Mark Sanford, sought counseling after his affair — as did Sen. John Ensign of Nevada after his affair — has begun paying D.C. real estate taxes.
News Source: The Herald
| 12 days ago
Bush administration Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once promised Guantanamo held "the worst of the worst." The judges here have rejected pleas for release from eight detainees, but they have concluded the government doesn't even have enough