While various members of the Bush Administration criscross the country to claim the Iraq war is going well and America must “stay the course” to win the battle, the Pentagon admitted Friday that sectarian violence is spreading in the violence-ravaged country and security problems are “more complex than at any time” since the U.S. invasion in 2003.
By BETSY HART
Late last week I was called by a national news program to discuss the Forbes.com story causing all the fuss, a column by Michael Noer which cautioned men: "Whatever you do, don’t marry a woman with a career."
FBI agents combed the offices of six Alaska state lawmakers on Thursday as part of a criminal investigation, according to local news reports and lawmakers not targeted in the probe.
Justice Antonin Scalia was the Supreme Court’s most frequent traveler last year with 24 expense-paid trips that took him as far as Ireland, Italy, Turkey and Australia.
The nation’s governors sought help Thursday from Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in their ongoing fight against proposals in Congress to give President Bush more control — and governors less — over the National Guard during disasters.
A former Democratic congressman said Thursday he would reconsider his campaign hours after he dropped out of the crowded free-for-all race against Republican incumbent Rep. Henry Bonilla for a newly-drawn congressional district.
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, with his career in elective office behind him, said Thursday he has a deal to publish a book.
By RAY RAYMOND
Why do you think we can’t seem to solve international problems anymore? The short answer is that the nature of our security threats have changed, but our international doctrines and institutions have not. Simply put, the post-World War II international system is broken and our ideas are out of date.
By DAN K. THOMASSON
In 43 years of reporting in this town, I have never seen a more bizarre, silly, overblown and wasteful affair than the investigation of the leak that identified one-time CIA covert operative Valerie Plame. At times the noise level has been so loud that one would think that her identification had severely compromised national security and that those involved in the revelation were guilty of nothing less than treason.