Author: jpol

Susan Hu wrote earlier this evening about the latest incident in which the U.S. military seems to be targeting foreign journalists in Iraq. This time it was an award-winning Iraqi journalist, Ali Fadhal, on assignment to The...

Much has already been written about President Bush’s 17 recess appointments announced on Thursday, many of them extremely controversial. It’s an old trick meant to get around those pesky Senate confirmation hearings....

I really don’t have a lot to say here myself except that it is becoming increasingly clear that the Bush administration obviously has no compunction about exercizing its power to punish its “enemies.” It seems...

In the wake of the West Virgina mine tragedy troubling revelations are emerging about the safety record of the Sago Mine which claimed the lives of twelve miners the other day — the lone survivor still in a coma and...

George W. Bush signed the Defense Appropriations Bill this past Friday which included the McCain Amendment forbidding cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment of detainees by U.S. personnel anywhere in the world. But the...