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The report, released on Saturday by Iraq Body Count (IBC), an independent project that tallies statistics from NGOs and other groups, says that between 8,315 and 9,028 Iraqi civilians were killed in 2008. That compares to over 22,671 civilian deaths in 2007, and over 25,774 in...
In plucking his Transportation Secretary from the ranks of the GOP, Barack Obama wasn't breaking tradition but extending it. In 2000, George W. Bush tapped Democrat Norman Mineta for the post-the lone cross-aisle appointment of his Administration. There's reason to believe LaHood - a veteran Illinois pol...
Some observers abroad, however, seemed so intent on mocking French angst over the news that they failed to notice there actually was none this time around. "French Find German's Role Hard To Swallow" shouted U.K. daily The Independent - then curiously went on to quote exclusively German sources hailing Caspar...
England came up with the idea of impeachment; in medieval times, any English subject or politician could initiate impeachment charges in Parliament. But by the fourteenth century, Parliament decided to limit the privilege to its own members. Four hundred years later, in the newly independent United States of America, Constitutional...
Despite the hundreds of uncomfortably frank papers in the report compiled by independent counsel Kenneth Starr, Clinton was impeached on one count: lying under oath about the nature of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Indignation over immoral acts in the Oval Office and the counterargument of a "vast right-wing...