Follow the money
Presidential campaigns are hoarding money for a coming advertising blitz — mostly in Iowa and New Hampshire — during the final three months of the year on airwaves already saturated…
American snipers ‘bait’ Iraqis
Army snipers hunting insurgents in Iraq were under orders to "bait" their targets with suspicious materials, such as detonation cords, and then kill whoever picked up the items, according to…
Defamation dilutes discourse
While negative political advertising has been around since the beginning of the republic, MoveOn.org seems to have cut some new ground for meanness and ratcheted up the incivility level more…
New focus on cyber-terrorism
A report showed up on a password-protected terrorist Web site in the summer of 2006 detailing the supposed susceptibility of the Army's Stryker vehicles to rocket-propelled grenades. The terrorists found it…
Cheney tried to provoke Iran-Israel war
US Vice President Richard Cheney has considered provoking an exchange of military strikes between Iran and Israel in order to give the United States a pretext to attack Iran, Newsweek…
Online ‘mashup’ draws 1 million viewers
An experimental online "mashup" — a build-your-own Democratic presidential debate — attracted more than 1 million viewers in the past 10 days, many of them young people drawn to the…
