Dick Cheney

Obama's 'Katrina moment'

2013-05-17 06:05:00

It has been a rough week or so for the Obama administration. From Benghazi to the tapping of reporters' phones to the IRS admitting that it targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny, the press is in a frenzy, and many are questioning President...

Will Minnesota make a marriage equality trifecta?

2013-05-12 00:00:00

Six months after Maryland, Maine and Washington voters endorsed same-sex marriage at the ballot box, two more states have adopted laws allowing gay couples to marry, and a third is poised to join them. On Tuesday, lawmakers in Delaware adopted a same-...

What did we learn from Iraq?

2013-03-19 11:33:00

Ten years have passed since the United States invaded Iraq, a decision that almost everyone now ranks as one of the worst foreign policy blunders of our time. Why "almost"? Former President George W. Bush and his top aides still maintain that the invasion...

Dick Cheney dishonest, defiant and then some to the end in Showtime documentary

2013-03-10 10:57:00

The first question Dick Cheney is asked in "The World According to Dick Cheney" is: What's your favorite virtue? "Integrity," he answers. What do you value most in your friends?" he's asked in follow-up. "Honesty," he says through those crooked,...

Fixing the filibuster

2013-03-10 05:00:00

The filibuster is back in the news, thanks to Sen. Rand Paul's nearly 13-hour talkathon on U.S. drone policy last week. Putting aside the merits of Mr. Paul's national security views, his feat of endurance was in the best tradition of the Senate. He...

Argo, Lincoln and the politics of Hollywood

2013-02-26 03:00:00

The Oscar for best picture was won by "Argo," the true tale of a secret rescue mission in Iran during the Carter administration. It beat out "Lincoln," the story of how black Americans were rescued from slavery. Does this mean Jimmy Carter's stock is on...

Iraq's bitter lessons

2013-02-21 11:34:00

It has been 10 years since then-Secretary of State Colin Powell's U.N. speech on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. I watched the secretary's presentation intently on assignment to Fort Jackson, S.C. that day. The presentation, of course, would make...

Biden has the last laugh

2013-01-04 00:00:00

Vice President Joe Biden, the Republicans' favorite punching bag, gave his critics nothing to laugh about as President Barack Obama's ultimate fireman in rescuing the country from the fiscal cliff it teetered on as 2012 ended. Mr. Biden's 11th-hour...

Killing terrorists, then and now

2013-02-09 00:00:00

An unsigned and undated Justice Department white paper, obtained by NBC News, reports The New York Times, "... is the most detailed analysis yet to come into public view regarding the Obama legal team's views about the lawfulness of killing, without a...

Don't count Biden out in 2016

2013-01-28 10:19:00

As the second Obama term gets underway, much is being said and written about the president finally emerging as a tougher, stronger Democrat in the liberal mold of past party greats. His second inaugural address pressed Republicans in Congress to accept...

Skeptics notwithstanding, Clinton will accept responsibility for ambassador's death

2013-01-08 05:15:00

It was disappointing to read Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s column criticizing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for not appearing before Congress to testify about the death of our ambassador to Libya ("For Republicans, a not so happy New Year," Jan. 6)....

Six decades later, sons seek answers on death of Detrick scientist

2012-12-08 12:46:00

First, the Army told Frank Olson's sons that the Fort Detrick scientist's death in a fall from a 13th-floor window of a New York hotel had been an accident. Then a presidential commission revealed that the CIA had given an unwitting Olson LSD as part of...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.com)

2013-05-06 06:16:00

Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is pictured in the audience at the dedication ceremony for the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas.

2013-04-25 00:00:00

President George W. Bush, far left, takes a walk at his Crawford, Texas ranch with his key advisers on Iraq in 2003: Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Air Force Gen. Richard Myers.

2013-03-22 16:21:17