Author Archives: Team VCS

Iraq’s leaders and military will be unable to lead the fight against insurgents until next summer at the earliest, a top U.S. military official said Wednesday, trying to temper any hopes that a full-scale American troop withdrawal was imminent as … 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Theater of War: An Ex-Marine Brings Iraq Stateside at MetroStage with play ‘Sand Storm’ By Richard LeibyWashington Post Staff WriterMonday, August 8, 2005; C01 It’s been a very bad week for the Marines in Iraq, and playwright Sean Huze is … Continue reading →

Vacations 50, Funerals 0 — Keeping Score for G.W. Bush 50 to 0 is quite a score. Fifty vacations for George W. Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas and zero funerals for soldiers or marines killed in Iraq or … Continue reading →

Armed men entered Baghdad’s municipal building during a blinding dust storm on Monday, deposed the city’s mayor and installed a member of Iraq’s most powerful Shiite militia. In continuing violence, the United States military announced today that four American soldiers … Continue reading →

VIENNA, Austria — Nuclear diplomacy can be as delicate a business as trying to defuse a bomb. Press too hard, and a regime suspected of trying to build atomic weaponry may harden its resolve and move its operations deeper underground. … Continue reading →