‘Dead wrong’ intel mistakes on Iraq crippled U.S. credibility
In what may be the biggest blunder in the history of U.S. intelligence, American spy agencies were "dead wrong" on Iraq, dealing a blow to American credibility that will take…
Terri Schiavo is dead
Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman who became the focal point of political opportunism by Congress, President Bush and right-to-life conservatives, died on Thursday, a spokesman for the parents said. …
Send in the clowns
A long-standing joke among career soldiers notes the term “military intelligence” is, in fact, an oxymoron. Today, the public learns the same is true for the civilian intelligence community. Forget…
Supremes crack down on age discrimination
The Supreme Court expanded job protections for roughly half the nation's work force Wednesday, ruling that federal law allows people 40 and over to file age bias claims over salary…
Clueless Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan insists an investigation into the oil-for-food program in Iraq clears him of wrongdoing, but the probe shows that the U.N. secretary-general didn't do much right either. He was…
Judicial nomination war escalates
Many Americans are more interested in the movies than in the inner workings of Congress, so when television producer Norman Lear set out to turn public opinion against a Republican…
Weapons of mass deception
President Bush's commission on weapons of mass destruction has found that failures throughout U.S. spy agencies led to botched estimates of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein and is recommending…
Congratulations, it’s a boy…and you’re busted
A woman rushing to a hospital to give birth hit a few stops along the way - first at a gas station where she delivered the baby herself, then when…
Losing streak continues for Schiavo’s parents
Nearly two weeks after Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was disconnected, her parents endured what their lawyer says may be their last legal setback when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to…
Court says nada once again to Schaivo’s parents
With time running out for Terri Schiavo, a federal appeals court Wednesday rejected her parents' latest attempt to get the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube reconnected. …
