America is in free fall – a failed nation led by failed leaders with failed ideas serving a lemming-like populace that views failure as an acceptable alternative.
Today’s America is flawed in so many ways that analysis of the complex events that led us to the precipice is difficult at best.
How did we get here? Can we save what once was a great country built upon noble notions of freedom? Is redemption possible or even desirable?
By JOSE DE LA ISLA
President Bush has finally announced that 14 terrorist suspects will go on trial. He has acknowledged the detainees have been in CIA hands and are now in military custody. Congress still has to authorize court procedures for the trials. This is a pivotal moment. It is a "paradigm change," a time when one conceptual way of understanding could give way to another.
Advocacy groups for older people and the disabled urged lawmakers on Wednesday to let more people enroll in the Medicare drug plan this year without penalty.
The Democratic Party defused a tense internal struggle over how it spends its money by boosting spending on a get-out-the-vote effort for the November elections.
Two years before she was elected governor of Texas, Ann Richards electrified the 1988 Democratic National Convention with a keynote speech in which she joked that the Republican presidential nominee, George H.W. Bush, had been “born with a silver foot in his mouth.”
House Republicans and Democrats traded accusations of improper politicking Wednesday as they sparred over a resolution commemorating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Democrat Ned Lamont said Wednesday the U.S. is weaker because of the war in Iraq backed by rival Sen. Joe Lieberman, and he called for shifting forces to Afghanistan and elsewhere.
President Bush will be facing a tough crowd as he steps behind closed doors to ask House Republicans divided by the politics of war to support his drive for more power to spy on, imprison and interrogate terrorism suspects.
The White House and three powerful GOP senators reached an impasse Wednesday over a Bush administration plan to allow tough CIA interrogations, underscoring election-season divisions among Republicans on the high profile issue of security.
By JOHN HALL
Like it or loathe it, President Bush’s speech from the Oval Office on the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks may be one of the handful of addresses that historians consult about his presidency.