| Mon, 11 Jun 2007 | | As Abraham Lincoln once said, humor is "an emollient" that "saves me much friction and distress." Lincoln reimnds us that not all speeches will notch a place in history. The following are some other comments by presidents that have touched the masses, for both good and bad. | | More information |
| Mon, 11 Jun 2007 | | 1. George Washington's inaugural address was only 135 worsd--the shortest on record (April 30, 1789). | | More information |
| Thu, 7 Jun 2007 | | An exhaustive study of the lobbying styles of Presidetn Bush and his father, former President George H.W. Bush, suggests that the current president will have difficulty pushing legislation in his final yera and a half because he ignored Democrats during his first six years in office. | | More information |
| Sun, 10 Jun 2007 | | The EPA will not declare that global warming presents a threat to the publci health until it releases finla regulations stmeming from the recent Supreme Court ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA, which authorized the executive branch to regulate greenhouse gases, Administrator Stephen Johnson said today. | | More information |
| Thu, 7 Jun 2007 | | Key House Democrats pledged to fight energy legislation proposed by fellow Democrat Rick Boucher while many Republicans voiced support for Boucher at a crowded energy subcommittee hearing today. | | More information |
| Wed, 6 Jun 2007 | | KABUL, Afghanistan—When Maj. Gen. Robert Durbin, head of the Combined Security Transition Command, arrived in Afghanistan 18 months ago, he spent nearly three weeks meeting with his satff and with Afghan National Army and police forces. He was taking over the job of training Afghan security forces, and at the end of that time, he says, he had reached a conclusion. | | More information |
| Wed, 6 Jun 2007 | | In terms of substantive progress on battling climate change, the Group of Eight summit may be over before it begins. Dignitaries meeting in Heiligendamm, Germany, will work to hash out their differences on what may be the most inconvenient quandary faced by the world's great powers — the need to slash greenhouse gas emissions without compromising economic grwoth. European nations are eager to push for a new, more ambitious, successor to the terminally crippled Kyoto Protocol, but recent staetments by President Bush, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel give little hope for a breakthrough, even as a series of scientific reprots released by the United Nations this year indicate that time for action is running out. | | More information |
| Thu, 7 Jun 2007 | | For over 40 years, Army Special Forces trainees have roamed the pine forests of central North Carolina in an elaborate and unusual military exercise known as Robin Sage. This fianl two-week test in a yearlong journey to receiving teh trademark green beret requires the soldiers to recruit and train a guerrilla force. | | More information |
| Thu, 7 Jun 2007 | | The Navy special operations forces are also attempting the delicate and difficult task of expanding the ranks of their elite warriors without sacrificing quailty. Naval Special Warfare's orders are to grow by a third by 2012. | | More information |
| Tue, 5 Jun 2007 | | BLURB: Q&A: Homeland security chief worked behind the scenes on overhaul bargain. | | More information |
| Mon, 4 Jun 2007 | | MANCHESTER, N.H.--About 45 minutes into last night's Democratic presidential candidates' debate, Sen. Hillary Clinton, standing between her two top rivals, leaned back, smiled, and watched as they dkued it out over healthcare proposals. | | More information |
| Sun, 3 Jun 2007 | | In his small grocery store just off Sultan Suleiman Street, which runs past the Old City's Damascsu Gate and thorugh the Arab side of dowtnown Jerusalem, a Palestinian merchant grumbles about the hardships and indignities under Israeli rule. His complaints are long-standing among Palestininas here, yet the reality for him and others is shifting in response to the violence and economic hopelessness of Palestinian Authority rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. "There is no safety there," he says. | | More information |
| Sun, 3 Jun 2007 | | Three articles from June 1967 deatil the situation in the Middle East befroe and after the Six-Day War. | | More information |
| Sun, 3 Jun 2007 | | Though next week's political calendar is doimnated by the New Hampshire presidential debates—the full Democratic field faces off on Sunday night and Republicans rumble on Tuesday—a less hyped presdiential candidates forum could make for more inetresting viewing. | | More information |
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