Iraq panel: U.S. should reduce combat role
The Iraq Study Group has decided to recommend the U.S. military transition from a combat to a support role in Iraq roughly over the next year, a source familiar with…
Bush on Iraq: Turnover ‘yes,’ withdrawal ‘no’
President Bush said Thursday the United States will speed a turnover of security responsibility to Iraqi forces but assured Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that Washington is not looking for a…
Even Colin Powell is calling Iraq a ‘civil war’
Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Wednesday Iraq had descended into civil war and urged world leaders to accept that "reality".
Powell's remarks came ahead of…
New Bush foreign policy ploy: Take away Kim’s toys
In a novel effort targeting the lifestyle of North Korea's eccentric president, the Bush administration wants to make it tougher for him to buy iPods, plasma televisions, Segway electric scooters…
Just say ‘no’ to the ‘N-word’
I agree with Jesse Jackson. Let's make the N-word a non-word.
It shouldn't be used anymore in entertainment venues. Come to think of it, let's ban the N-word from…
Google CEO to pols: Wanna win? Use the ‘Net
Google's chief executive offered some advice on Wednesday to Republicans looking ahead to the 2008 presidential contest: make better use of the Internet's electioneering power if you want to win…
Nancy gets down and dirty
Outgoing Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert may have been a wrestler, but it's incoming Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who's the fighter.
Her fellow Democrats had barely anointed her…
Frist says nada to White House run
Republican U.S. Senate Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee said on Wednesday he would not run for the White House in 2008 and will return to his medical career after he…
Mexico’s dirty little war
The question I had for Joaquin, my father's cousin, was what circumstances led him to join the Mexican Communist Party in the 1930s? A decade ago, I met him for…
I am, therefore I don’t shop
By REG HENRY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette In this dream-crossed twilight between birth and dying, as the poet T.S. Eliot described life, we need something to do to fill in the time. Many Americans…
