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Iraq film moves audience, criticizes White House

with Larry Diamondvia Stanford Daily
Thursday, May 24, 2007

A packed Kresge Auditorium expressed shock and awe over the documentary “No End in Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq” last night...

Analysis and Commentary

Is Sky Falling on America?

by Victor Davis Hansonvia Tribune Media Services
Thursday, May 24, 2007

The suicide-murders and roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan sicken Americans...

In the News

A Bush Loyalist Gently States His Case to Neocons

with John B. Taylorvia Wall Street Journal
Thursday, May 24, 2007

When Timothy D. Adams, an earnest 45-year-old who spent a decade working for the current President Bush and his father, took the podium at a ceremony on his last day as the Treasury's top international official, he chose to speak about the importance of humility in foreign affairs...

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Our Civil War's lesson for Iraq

with John Abizaidvia Orange County Register
Wednesday, May 23, 2007

On Palm Sunday 1865, Gens. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant met in the parlor of the McLean home in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, and agreed to terms that would make the reunification of the nation possible...

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Screening of No End in Sight followed by panel on Iraq

with Larry Diamondvia Stanford Report
Wednesday, May 23, 2007

The award-winning film, No End in Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq, will be screened at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 23, in Kresge Auditorium, and followed by a panel discussion with the film's director and experts on the war in Iraq...

In the News

Richardson makes his candidacy official

with Milton Friedmanvia Washington Times
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, touting his foreign and domestic experience, officially declared his candidacy yesterday for the Democratic presidential nomination, promising to end the Iraq war and rebuild the U.S. reputation abroad...

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Creating Effective Incentives

with Victor Davis Hansonvia Human Events Online
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

What should our response be if terrorists set off a nuclear explosion, or some other weapon of mass destruction, in one of our cities?

In the News

Cut America Some Slack

by Victor Davis Hansonvia Works and Days
Monday, May 21, 2007

For five years we have been lectured that George Bush ruined the trans-Atlantic relationship...

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Forward Observer: Army in Extremis

with William J. Perryvia Government Executive
Monday, May 21, 2007

Despite widespread warnings that the Army is the sickest of our armed services and in danger of dying from overwork in Iraq, the Pentagon's latest budget projections show the Army getting less than the Navy and Air Force every year from fiscal 2008 through fiscal 2013...

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ASSU selects Diamond as teacher of the year

with Larry Diamondvia Stanford Daily
Monday, May 21, 2007

The ASSU has finally found something it can agree on: over the weekend, a special ASSU commission selected Political Science Prof. and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Larry Diamond as the Teacher of the Year...

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