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Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), piling on to Democratic complaints about President Bush’s speech in Israel today: “This is bullshit, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset ... and make this kind of ridiculous...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California is pressuring the Bush administration to deliver on its promise to outfit two National Guard cargo planes for firefighting duty by July, warning Thursday that residents face another season of wildfire danger. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
Tim Russert is NBC News’ Washington bureau chief and host of Meet the Press. Msnbc: Tim, the White House denies it, but the Barack Obama campaign is accusing President Bush of targeting the Democratic frontrunner with comments Thursday in Israel, where he warned about negotiating with terrorists....
LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates will deliver the commencement address to graduating cadets at Virginia Military Institute. School officials said more than 250 cadets are to receive their diplomas during Friday's ceremony. About half of them will be commissioned into military...
By Jacquelyn S. Porth The United States flew another five humanitarian aid missions into Burma May 15, bringing the total number of flights up to 13, but much more is still needed to help the Burmese people, who are reeling in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis. At the same time, Morrell said "there...
On April 22, the plush dining room at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington is noticeably bare. Aside from a table of tourists and a lone harried diner, most of the overstuffed chairs sit empty. It is the day of the Pennsylvania primary, and there are no politicians to feast on...
"Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: "Lord, if only I could have...
The storm over President Bush's "appeasement" remarks in Israel misses the point. No, we should not appease, engage, or give shoulder rubs to Islamist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah. When Robert Gates talks about sitting down with his Iranian counterparts, isn't that appeasement--assuming...
Yesterday evening, in the dark and faintly musty basement of the Kensington Library in west London, openUSA attended a fascinating lecture on "anomalistic psychology" - the psychology of belief in the unreal - hosted by the Society for Psychical Research. We learned, amongst other fun facts, that...
Bush speech in Israel seen as attack on Obama : President George W. Bush used a speech to the Israeli Parliament on Thursday to denounce those who would negotiate with "terrorists and radicals" - a remark widely interpreted as a rebuke to Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential...
