Every qualified American citizen has the right to vote.
In the years since Jim Crow laws were eliminated and safeguards for protecting voter rights were established, the biggest problem with voting in our national elections has been that so many people haven’t. Among democratic nations, we’re the traditional leaders in voter apathy and low turnout.
That […]

AP says that the former chemical weapons production facility at Muthanna in Iraq has been extensively looted and that looting at the site continues.
Citing the report written by chief US weapons hunter Charles Duelfer, the agency says that all of the UN-sealed bunkers at the site—including one partially destroyed during Gulf War I, in which […]

Although stopping short of withdrawing from the race, George W. Bush on Wednesday declared himself unfit to serve as president.
“A political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as commander-in-chief,” the president said.
Some analysts interpreted the remarks as a dig at John Kerry for the latter’s assault […]

Relative to the careless loss of a massive cache of high explosives in Iraq, the extravagances of a struggling readers’ representative are insignificant.
Unless, of course, you happen to get caught up in them.
The response was predictable and swift when New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent scolded a reader for sending a nasty email […]

350 tons of very high explosives are among the items the U.S. failed to secure during the early weeks of the Iraq invasion.
The explosives, most of which were either RDX or HMX, are missing from a facility known to and sealed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The U.S. has refused to allow […]

What would you do if you were a huge U.S. defense contractor and you were developing a product that was absurdly expensive, doesn’t work and probably never will? (Aside from breaking out the champagne and hookers every time the funding gets renewed.)
If you’re Lockheed Martin, you’ll rotate it through your website’s splash page right […]

Sinclair Broadcast Group’s decision to air the anti-Kerry film, “Stolen Honor,” has led to threats of possible legal action from two quarters, and pointed questions from a large institutional investor.
Shareholder attorney William S. Lerach announced a news conference today “to discuss insider self-dealing by officers of Sinclair Broadcasting, the Baltimore-based television chain that is forcing […]

New York Newsday reports that George Bush rejected an offer from a consortium of Muslim states to provide security for U.N. election workers in Iraq.
Diplomats said [U.N. Secretary-General Kofi] Annan accepted the plan. But the Bush administration objected because the special force would have been controlled by the UN instead of by U.S. military officers […]

Essayist and author Ron Suskind has an 8,000-word piece on George Bush’s “faith-based presidency” in this week’s New York Times magazine. (The NYT version is truncated at the moment; the link is to a reprint.)
The thrust of the article is that during the course of his presidency, Bush has morphed from a relatively flexible guy, […]

The manpower squeeze in the Army is so serious that the service’s elite training regiment, the 11th Armored Cavalry, is shipping out for combat duty in Iraq.
The training regiment simulates the opposition likely to be faced by U.S. troops deploying into combat. During the past decade, the regiment has trained a half-million troops. Its training […]