Month: December 2005

The war in Iraq presents our nation with many conundrums. Perhaps the most intractable question is ‘what are the downsides of success?” Of course, success is hard to define. But let’s just say that success has...

George Bush, in his Philadelphia speech today, has shown unmistakable signs of cutting and running on Iraq. He made some pretty astonishing acknowledgements for a President who has lived and died on being bullheaded. He and his...

Arnold has made up his mind. He will not grant clemency to Stanley Tookie Williams. He will die in 11 hours — at 12:01 am tomorrow — which some people might argue is a hell of a lot longer than he gave his alleged...

David Hackworth, I wish you could see this image. Hack, you won’t believe this: John Holley and his wife Stacey say that they were told by the military that their son’s body — the body of their only child...

Just like his avoiding the war in Vietnam, President Bush has cut and run again. He can say he was in the Texas National Guard trying to smoke out them high-flying Viet Cong but, simply put, he was scared–afraid of getting...