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...time President George W. Bush's determination to remove Saddam by force was fixed, I suspect Blair saw another stark choice. Either Bush succeeded or the Iraqi leader humiliated the United States by mobilizing world opinion against the President, and forced him to back down. No gray area. Any fudge, whether inspired by the U.N. or anybody else, would be a victory for Iraq. So Blair had no hesitation in backing Bush. The alternative was to see the world reordered in a way that strengthened tyranny, encouraged terrorism and menaced freedom. (See pictures of the Bush-Blair friendship...
...list, even if the statistics that accompany the top spot are a $10.9 billion-dollar loss and -29.8 percent change in endowment market value. And sure, we’re accustomed to Yale, Stanford, and Princeton being behind us...but then again, endowment mismanagement is one area we don't really want to dominate...
...hour show, Beck and O'Reilly finally appeared together to banter lightly. Audience members ranged from 30-somethings to retirees. Steve Davio, 55, a scientist from the Rochester area, watches The O'Reilly Factor nearly every night. The current "progressive agenda, [with] each incremental step, takes us further and further from an America of self-reliance, land of the free and the home of the brave," he says. "It makes us the land of the weak and the home of the helpless...
...wrote in a new report for the Progressive Policy Institute. It doesn't help that the one region that could most obviously benefit from truly high-speed rail - the Boston-to-Washington corridor - received a mere $112 million in funding, in part because building new track in the congested area would be prohibitively expensive and politically challenging...
...clearly skewed, as it requires a sovereign nation defending its citizens—while simultaneously adhering to the highest standards of ethical warfare (including, in Israel’s case, the sending of text messages and dropping of warning leaflets with evacuation instructions for residents before targeting an area)—to face the frightful prospect that it will be accused of war crimes (by the indignant likes of Mr. Rashid) if unfortunate civilian deaths occur. Even more troubling is Mr. Rashid’s silence when it comes to Hamas, which has stolen foreign aid and committed violence...