Truth to Power
Tonight's State of the Union address should be unlike any in recent memory. Not because George W. Bush turns...
Congress Watch
Farewell John Bolton
(Washington, D.C.): Today's announcement that John Bolton will forego further efforts to remain at his post as the (ironically named)...
The way ahead
Democratic political strategist Pat Caddell is one angry man. His is not the anger, however, of a typical partisan, seething...
2005-2006 National Security Scorecard
The Center for Security Policy has released its seventh National Security Scorecard grading members of Congress on votes vital to...
‘No place to run’
In the 2006 mid-term elections, no issue is likely to be more determinative of the outcomes of congressional races and,...
Commending Senators Hagel and Chafee
As the Islamofascist regime in Iran rebuffs UN efforts to end its pursuit of nuclear weapons, the Security Council will...
On eve of Bolton re-nomination hearing, fifty-four
George Shultz, William Clark, James Woolsey, Max Kampelman, Senior Retired Military Officers among Signatories on Joint Letter to Sen. Lugar...
The ‘Two Bill’s’ hidden agenda
Today's Wall Street Journal features in the front page of its "Marketplace" Section a typically fatuous article about the "Two...
No money for latest U.N. human rights flim-flam
Two weeks ago, the United States took an important stand against the United Nation's record of feckless and contemptuous treatment...
The winning alternative
Decision Brief No. 05-D 60 2005-11-21 (Washington, D.C.): Call it the Week that Was. In the course of four days,...
Creeping defeatism
To its discredit, the United States Senate today approved an ill-advised -- and possibly disastrous -- amendment to the annual...
The UN-internet
(Washington, D.C.): Every once in a while an idea so goofy comes along that one is inclined to dismiss it...
Out of control
(Washington, D.C.): Sen. Jesse Helms once famously complained that the problem with the State Department is simple. With all its...
Sovereignty levees breached?
(Washington, D.C.): Since it seems the only news that is fit to print (or air) these days has to do...
The undoing of America?
(Washington, D.C.): The U.S. Senate is scheduled on September 6th to decide whether to clear the way for the most...