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Mar
14
2008

  • Gaza is under murderous assault and the United States is escalating regional threats while pushing new sanctions against Iran. - Randy Benson on 2008-03-14
Mar
13
2008

  • WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Five years ago, Congress killed an experimental Pentagon antiterrorism program meant to vacuum up electronic data about people in the U.S. to search for suspicious patterns. Opponents called it too broad an intrusion on Americans' privacy, even after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. - Randy Benson on 2008-03-13
Mar
10
2008

How far off were they? Well, it depends on which figure you choose to start with. Here's the range: According to key officials in the Bush administration back in 2002-2003, the invasion and reconstruction of Iraq was either going to cost $60 billion, or $

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Mar
2
2008

Since the expiration of the poorly-named Protect America Act, the White House and its allies have gone to great lengths to argue that we should be absolutely terrified.

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Feb
20
2008

No Child Left Behind has created the wrong kind of debate about testing.

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Feb
19
2008

The Bush administration allowed CIA interrogators to use tactics that were 'quite distressing, uncomfortable, even frightening,' as long as they did not cause enough severe and lasting pain to constitute illegal torture, a senior Justice Department offici

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Feb
18
2008

One of the more intriguing questions Clio, the ancient Greek Muse of History, poses is the degree to which great military victories were the fruit of smart plans as opposed to dumb luck. Did the North Vietnamese expect the Tet Offensive to be a tactical d

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  • One of the more intriguing questions Clio, the ancient Greek Muse of History, poses is the degree to which great military victories were the fruit of smart plans as opposed to dumb luck. Did the North Vietnamese expect the Tet Offensive to be a tactical defeat but an operational victory? They now claim they did, but we will not know until their archives are opened. - Randy Benson on 2008-02-18
Feb
11
2008

One longtime House member's views of the hidden costs of the war in Iraq are worth studying -- when the congressman is Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on defense.

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Oct
26
2007

It sounds crazy, doesn't it?

We may find ourselves bombing the people we're supposed to be helping, in order to prevent an invasion. . .after having invaded ourselves. . .

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Oct
19
2007

More than six years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, America is a country with more physical security to defend against terrorism.

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