As the Democrats prepare to attempt one of the largest tax increases in American history, their allies in the press corps are softening the ground with a campaign against the ideological underpinnings of the Bush tax cuts...
Today’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting comes two weeks after the U.S. Treasury prodded major banks to create a $60-$100 billion structured credit facility to shore up the asset-backed commercial paper market...
Retired Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois and Nobel-winning University of Chicago economist Gary Becker are among the recipients of this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award...
When Mayor Giuliani announced his team of foreign policy advisors earlier this year, I thought that they constituted a significant credit in favor of his candidacy...
For all the recent attention paid to the hawkish circle of foreign policy intellectuals around Mayor Giuliani, the Giuliani campaign's version of Condoleezza Rice is a retired career foreign service officer who once worked as an aide to U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros Ghali...
As patrons filed into Manhattan's 92nd Street Y to catch a sold-out appearance by Larry David, the scene outside was producing a punchline straight out of his HBO sitcom "Curb Your Enthusiasm..."
with John Abizaidvia American Forces Press Service
Monday, October 29, 2007
The head of the Defense Department's counter-improvised explosive device effort challenged some of the best minds in industry, academia, the national laboratories and the military to come up with better ways to thwart these deadly weapons...
Retired Gen. John Abizaid, the former commander of the U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in a 27-country region that covers much of the Middle East, said Monday that it might take half a century before the U.S. military could leave the region...
Determinism since Marx has been the driving force in historical studies—whether class strife, technological innovation, geographical constraints, or environmental degradation...
Virulent anti-U.S. rhetoric and radical economic policies are plunging resource-rich Latin American countries into poverty despite record high oil prices and an expanding global economy...
