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Three agonizing months of deliberation, analysis and internal debate in the White House and this is the best they can do? (more…)

There has been no doubt for weeks now in my mind that President Obama has been planning a retreat from Afghanistan. All the dithering and hand-wringing (more…)

Barack Obama scored big points during the 2008 campaign by reminding voters of his opposition to the war in Iraq in 2002 (when he was an Illinois State Senator without an actual vote). (more…)

Like most news junkies who had followed the war in Iraq on a daily basis for six years, I thought I was pretty well informed. However when I read (more…)

“Part of the success in Iraq involved reaching out to people that we would consider to be Islamic fundamentalists,” said Obama, (more…)

As the nation’s attention is currently focused on our troubled commerce, and no less on the Big Government responses that President (more…)

Though much of the focus of Barack Obama’s first six weeks in office has been on his trillion dollar economic stimulus and (more…)

Iraq has now taken another huge step toward stable democratic rule and no one seems to have noticed.

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Dear President George W. Bush: As you open a new chapter in your life down in Crawford, Texas, after eight, sometimes turbulent (more…)

The Iraqi journalist that threw his shoes at President Bush is now apologizing . Apparently, the blessings of freedom (more…)

I mostly listened to the Vice Presidential debate on radio, though I did get to see some of it on TV. Palin held her own and well exceeded (more…)

A perpetual problem in politics is the dispute between statesmen and party strategists. The former wish to lead public opinion (more…)

Clearly, the price of war is horrendous. The Civil War cost 600,000 lives. Worth the cost to emancipate a few slaves? (more…)

Lies are told so frequently in today’s media/Internet-driven politics that they take on a reality of their own. In the Iraq war, it is impossible not to hear on a daily basis (more…)