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...abuses of the fourth estate’s power, but they should be ashamed of themselves. The commercial media’s coverage of Dean was often no more than an irresponsible, unfair, unprofessional sham. Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst notoriously followed through on a promise to supply the Spanish-American War so his photographers could have a juicy assignment. More than a century later, the media took down Howard Dean. Then they wrote about...
...gives Congress the authority to declare war. Article II, Section 2, makes the President Commander in Chief of the armed forces. Is it constitutionally necessary for Congress to declare war in order for a President to make war? No: the U.S. has declared war only four times (1812, Spanish-American, World War I and World War II). Bush has congressional resolutions authorizing force. But you do not want to go into a (to say the least) controversial war, opposed by much of the world, when protected merely by the fine print. I wish Bush had the full constitutional writ behind...
...gives Congress the authority to declare war. Article II, Section 2, makes the President Commander in Chief of the armed forces. Is it constitutionally necessary for Congress to declare war in order for a President to make war? No: the U.S. has declared war only four times (1812, Spanish-American, World War I and World War II). Bush has congressional resolutions authorizing force. But you do not want to go into a (to say the least) controversial war, opposed by much of the world, when protected merely by the fine print. I wish Bush had the full constitutional writ behind...
Zinn compared the war on terror to other wars in the past—the Spanish-American War, the Mexican-American War and the Vietnam War—that “purport to be one thing but are really something else.” Instead of being a war on terror, Zinn said the current war is motivated by American political, economic and psychological “expansionism...
...dedicated to Harvard Medical School graduate and Medal of Honor recipient Major General Leonard Wood (1860-1927), who is also the namesake of Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, where Flowers is stationed. Wood is most often remembered for commanding the legendary “Rough Riders” during the Spanish-American...