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The Pentagon’s ban on photography of coffins containing remains of American soldiers killed in war has been a topic of debate among journalists, war opponents and war supporters since it first came into play during Gulf War I. Many people thought this policy — for a variety of personal agendas...

There’s an email circulating that starts off with another of those typical “the media won’t tell you this” lines. In this particular case, the accusation is that the story “doesn’t have the shock effect.” But as usual, there’s a little more to it than that...something that the “they” who composed...

Just a few minutes ago, a bulletin from the New York Times reported that a roadside bomb in Baghdad killed four U.S. soldiers, bringing the official American death toll, as tabulated by the Associated Press, to 4,000. The grim milestone came on the same day that rockets and mortars pounded...

It was not a dark and stormy night, although perhaps that would have been a more appropriate setting, obvious cliché aside. In fact, it was an otherwise quiet morning in Washington, around 9:00am, when President George W. Bush gave the executive order from the Situation Room that launched Operation Iraqi...

In an upcoming article, Mike Huckabee, who has surged ahead in the GOP polls, is questioning the Mormon faith: “Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, ‘Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?’ “The article, to be published in Sunday's New York Times...

Who’ll be the Democratic presidential candidate in 2008? It would seem that Karl Rove has already decided that it’ll be Hillary Clinton. In his Newsweek column, he discusses how the Republican candidate — he apparently hasn’t decided who that will be, yet — can beat her: “Say in authentic terms...

Did Saddam Hussein participate in the 9/11 terror attacks? It’s a simple question, and the answer has been confirmed by official sources, including some at the White House. But the answer still doesn’t come easily for some Americans. A new CBS/New York Times poll reveals that even today, 1 in...

“A threat to your children.” Where did that quote come from? To what does it refer? Was it spoken by George W. Bush on the subject of terrorists? Or was it how Al Gore described global warming? “It is not a question of left vs. right; it is a question...

What do you say on Memorial Day? Especially while an unpopular war continues to divide the country so bitterly that little if anything seems to get done because of all of the arguing. You send your condolences to the families who’ve lost loved ones. Not that there is anything anyone...

Some people are taking the story of the massacre at Virginia Tech and using it to make a political point. Those who speak out against the current administration, and there are many, are comparing the bloodshed in Blacksburg to the bloodshed on any average day in Iraq. Some of them...

There was a time when I had every intention of voting for John McCain in 2008. It might have begun as early as 2000, in fact. The recent news item about the presidential candidate's recent trip to Iraq, to make a point about the effectiveness of the War in Iraq,...