There are some people who will seldom if ever admit they were wrong. Ann Coulter surely would never apologize to the 9/11 widows; the detestable anti-war bloc that demonstrates against families burying their war heroes have no regrets. Gays will not admit they’ve gone too far in their Me-ism craze to tread on the majority’s sanctity of marriage, rather than to limit their cause to simply equal rights. Liberals refer to Conservatives as fascists while communist is the Conservative call-word for L...

   On Okinawa for the first time Marines in the Pacific had to deal with significant numbers of civilians. Our platoon came upon a large cave whence emanated a burst of rifle shot. The platoon retaliated with dominant firepower for some thirty seconds. There was no return fire — just screams, groans and cries. Slowly several women and children emerged from the mouth. The Marines were aghast; the first team of the first squad cautiously — making certain the civilians were not booby trap...

Naturally we oppose preferential treatment for anybody — except our own kind, family and friends. Anything beyond is alien, and most particularly beyond our control. The number of eleven million illegal immigrants already in the country — not counting those with visa overstays and fraudulent green cards — is simply too overwhelming for INS. The borders must be fully protected by federalized military, and by hardball politics with Mexico and corporations that do business south of the ...

I was appalled at the time in ‘93 when the generals like little children stamped their feet in protest — virtually a coup — over Clinton’s executive order to permit Gays in the military. I am equally disappointed — since they waited until their comfortable pensions were secure—in the retired generals demanding the resignation of Rumsfeld, who on his own cognizance should have resigned three years ago for taking — as Iraq was not his initiative — the brunt of criticism for the Bush and Ch...

It’s ludicrous for the Los Angles Times to call for the early retirement of the duly elected Vice President. In fact, even if such a move — surely, inconceivable since Cheney is no Agnew — were contemplated by the President its legality would be questionable. As a liberal I am disturbed by the trend to kick an administration when it’s down. The American people, rightly or wrongly, elected this administration to carry on its policies of the first four years — that is, in the main, the ...

  Tomasky, editor of American Prospect, I trust, means well but his endless twining of small r-republicanism is utterly irrelevant to the times, together with his distorted view on the conditions for big D-Democrats to endorse the universal “common good” in the mire of particularism of the current political climate, which appears to exhale “enough of Bush,” yet despite his low popularity, even censure is taboo. When push comes to shove, the reality is that the common voter is incapable of ...

WASHINGTON - President Bush dismissed as "wild speculation" reports that the administration was planning for a military strike against Iran. Bush did not rule out the use of force, but he said he would continue to use diplomatic pressure to prevent Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon or the know-how and technology to make one. "I know here in Washington prevention means force," Bush said at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. "It does...

Back in the 30s communism gave socialism a bad name; FDR changed it to the New Deal. In the 50s Senator McCarthy changed the New Deal back to communism. While Hillary Clinton as First Lady was busy selling the country on Universal Health Care, corporations secretly were hungrily supporting it until the Republicans shot it down as socialized medicine. Now as corporations are nearing bankruptcy owing to escalating health insurance for their employees, they might this time put their collect...

The problem, dear Citizen, does not lie with the Dubai Crescent, but within ourselves. Though I was for dumping Dubai, it was not owing to racism, national security, or post 9/11 anxiety, but rather to dramatize the need for limiting our selling off American enterprise. After all, the city ports have their duly municipal authorized agencies to oversee their security — not to mention the rugged American stevedore unions — and, of course, the Coastguard, though woefully shortchanged...

Bush is toying with the idea that to sustain his fortitude to stay the course is to go back to drinking. To agree with Bush and McCain on the guest worker position Ted Kennedy had to guzzle down one too many tequilas. It’s rumored that smart ass Chris Matthews claims that Nancy Pelosi would have to emblematically put on an armored vest and helmet to track down Bin Laden to further the new get-tough on security policy forged by the Democrats. This would parallel Dukakis peering out...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Swedish court has imposed a 20,000 kronor ($2,600) fine on a woman kennel owner who refused to sell a puppy to a lesbian. The kennel owner, who was not identified, had initially been willing to sell the woman a puppy but changed her mind when she found out the woman was living with a lesbian partner, according to Sweden's discrimination ombudsman, a government watchdog who filed the lawsuit. I suppose, the free enterprise folks would defend the business owner on t...

When in the throes of war, troops find it difficult to elaborate on the bright side. The Post’s National Weekly Edition interviewed, supposedly in depth, a hundred troops in Iraq. Critics will immediately pounce on the article as skewed in order to emphasize the dark side of war. The criticism would be unwarranted and unrealistic even though Post showed a picture of an American soldier seated midst Iraqi school children in a classroom built by US troops — admittedly safely ensconced in a po...

All the talk about amnesty guest workers for illegal immigrants is pointless without first fixing the current chaos at the borders. Any political solution to the existing illegal immigrants now working within the economy will only further serve as an incentive for others to invade our borders. We must set up a viable military bloc along the borders and treat the violators as criminals and immediately sent back to their home country. Further, the Secretary of State’s office must insist that the...

Personally, I believe there is highly probable cause to impeach both Bush and Cheney, as is a very slim majority in agreement. It would generate so much controversy that the nation would lose sight — more than it does now — of the exigencies of the greater good. There is little doubt that the dynamic duo would be found guilty of charges that they deceived the people in believing Saddam was connected to the 9/11 tragedy, that he possessed WMD of so pressing a matter that we should not wait for ...

To crudely paraphrase Jefferson who said there should be a political revolution every generation to keep government on the path of integrity. The current political scene surely is probable cause for a revolutionary change in the ways things are done or more so not done. Foreign Affairs The Afghanistan conflict now in its fifth year and proportionately just as bloody as Iraq is essentially a forgotten war. Though we try to give aid and comfort to its people, it is cumbersome and m...