Yearly Archives: 2005

2005 Marine Corps Times Marine of the Year Sgt. Daniel Cotnoir MARINE CORPS MORTUARY AFFAIRS UNIT Assignment:Small-arms repairmanwith Ordnance Contact Team 1, OrdnanceMaintenance Company, 4th Maintenance Battalion, Devens, Mass. Cotnoir joined the Marine Corps in 1999 and was promoted meritoriously … Continue reading →

Washington Post Hit For Sponsorship Of Pentagon’s ‘Freedom’ March By Joe Strupp, Editor and Publisher, August 12, 2005 3:30 PM ET NEW YORKThe Washington Post has no plans to withdraw its co-sponsorship of a controversial Sept. 11 memorial walk being organized … Continue reading →

‘Support our troops’ — bring them home alive Plain Talk By Al Neuharth, USA TODAY Founder, August 11, 2005 They’re burying young Marine reservists in Ohio this week. Fourteen of them, ages 19 and up, were killed last week when their amphibious … Continue reading →

U.S. Lowers Sights On What Can Be Achieved in Iraq Administration Is Shedding ‘Unreality’ That Dominated Invasion, Official Says By Robin Wright and Ellen KnickmeyerWashington Post Staff WritersSunday, August 14, 2005; A01 The Bush administration is significantly lowering expectations of … Continue reading →

Sept. 11 Party a Travesty By Joshua Huck, University of Texas at Austin, August 11, 2005 Checking the news this morning, I happened to read an article which raised the hairs on the back of my neck. Incensed and incredulous, … Continue reading →

David Boaz is executive vice president of the Cato Institute (www.cato.org) and author of Libertarianism: A Primer. What does Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) have in common with James Madison? Madison’s home is in the congressional district that Allen has represented … Continue reading →

For more than a year, a modest bungalow known as “Peace House,” located a few miles from President Bush’s ranch, has served as a headquarters for anti-war activists. It is lonely work, with little more than a skeleton crew on … Continue reading →

Motorists got a barrelful of bad news Wednesday when oil prices soared to a new high, gasoline set another record in California and the Department of Energy warned that pump prices could remain above $2 a gallon through much of … Continue reading →

The news coming out of Iraq yesterday was that several more American soldiers had been killed. August’s toll so far has been mind-numbing. For American troops, it’s been one of the worst periods of the war. And yet there’s still … Continue reading →