From Army Misses Its June Goal for New Recruits: “The Army missed its recruiting goals in June for the second straight month, as rising casualties in Iraq and a strong economy at home kept the service from enlisting enough new soldiers, Pentagon officials said. The Army fell more than 1,000 active duty recruits short of [...]
The 20 Best “That Guys” Of All Time: Let me say that I think #1 doesn’t belong on the list, having transcended ‘that guy’ status, that #3 should be #1, and that #6 should be #2, and that #2 doesn’t belong in the top 5.
Man Clad In Underwear Pins Leopard: “A man clad only in [...]
April 12, 2007 – 03:05 pm
From 3 Generals Spurn the Position of War ‘Czar’: “The White House wants to appoint a high-powered czar to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with authority to issue directions to the Pentagon, the State Department and other agencies, but it has had trouble finding anyone able and willing to take the job, according [...]
From Japan Focus: “Last year, Prof. Yoshitomi Yasuo, head of Japan’s only Department of Cartoon Art (at Kyoto Seika University), invited cartoonists around the world to “Draw for Peace†as the theme of the 7th bi-annual Kyoto International Cartoon Exhibition. More than 400 responded, sending over a thousand submissions from countries in Europe (especially [...]
March 27, 2007 – 12:47 pm
From E. J. An Antiwar Tide on The Rise: “Within three weeks, the United States could face a constitutional crisis over President Bush’s war policy in Iraq. The president and his allies seem to want this fight. Yet insisting upon a confrontation will be another mistake in a long line of bad judgments about a [...]
February 20, 2007 – 12:38 pm
From A painful farewell to a fallen Marine: “Yesterday, more than 1,000 mourners crowded into St. John the Evangelist Church [in Swampscott] to say a final goodbye to Captain Jennifer Jean Harris Harris, watching as a Marine honor guard carried her flag-draped coffin into the seaside church where she was baptized. Harris, the first Massachusetts [...]
February 8, 2007 – 09:54 am
From Swampscott Marine dies in chopper crash in Iraq: “An overachiever who graduated Swampscott High School bound for the Naval Academy, Jennifer Harris signed up for the most grueling program available: She wanted to be a Marine. Harris, 27, a Marine Corps captain, was killed yesterday while piloting her CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter north of [...]
February 6, 2007 – 12:07 pm
From Where Congress Can Draw the Line: “War with Iran would be a catastrophe that would make us look back fondly on the minor inconvenience of being bogged down in Iraq. While the Congress flounders about what, exactly, it can do about Iraq, it can do something useful, while it still matters, in making clear [...]
January 31, 2007 – 03:49 pm
From Congress, the Constitution and War: The Limits on Presidential Power: “In giving Congress the power to declare war, the Constitution gives it authority to make decisions about a war’s scope and duration. The Founders, including James Madison, who is often called “the father of the Constitution,†fully expected Congress to use these powers to [...]
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