Author Archives: Team VCS

‘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 →

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 →

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 →