PAGO PAGO, American Samoa >>( For photos go to http://www.newsandwx.com/tsunami.swf) A powerful Pacific Ocean earthquake spawned towering tsunami waves that swept ashore on Samoa and American Samoa, flooding and flattening villages, killing dozens of people and leaving several workers missing at devastated National Park Service facilities.
Attorneys for Dan Rather said they plan to appeal a decision issued today by a New York appeals court dismissing Rather’s $70-million lawsuit against CBS.
“We are extremely disappointed with the Appellate Court’s decision,” Martin R. Gold, Rather’s lead attorney, said in a statement. “We believe the decision is incorrect on a number of grounds and, [...]
By Richard Cohen
Sooner or later it is going to occur to Barack Obama that he is the president of the United States. As of yet, though, he does not act that way, appearing promiscuously on television and granting interviews like the presidential candidate he no longer is. The election has been held, but the campaign [...]
Yes, last week’s announcement that Iran is building a new, covert nuclear-processing facility was stage-managed by the U.S., Britain and France for maximum dramatic effect. And yes, it was timed to put Iran on the defensive heading into this week’s long-awaited talks with the U.S.
But the obvious choreography of the disclosure doesn’t change the reality [...]
President Barack Obama is taking out a blank sheet of paper this week as he weighs his options in Afghanistan, and Congress stands more than willing to fill it in. The Senate on Sept. 29 is expected to debate amendments to the 2010 defense appropriations bill that are likely to include everything from timelines for [...]
‘Safe school czar’ encouraged child sex with an older man
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
A teacher was told by a 15-year-old high school sophomore that he was having homosexual sex with an “older man.” At the very least, statutory rape occurred. Fox News reported that the teacher violated a state law requiring that he report the abuse. [...]
Roman Polanski raped a child. Let’s just start right there, because that’s the detail that tends to get neglected when we start discussing whether it was fair for the bail-jumping director to be arrested at age 76, after 32 years in “exile” (which in this case means owning multiple homes in Europe, continuing to work [...]
by Robert D. Kaplan
As the Obama administration’s recent scrapping of plans for an Eastern European missile defense system makes clear, while Poland and the Czech Republic may be our allies, it is mighty Russia to whom we are wise to defer………..
From a strategic perspective, the Obama Administration’s decision, earlier this month, to scrap [...]
By ROSS DOUTHAT
All spring and summer, it looked as though Joe Lieberman, the independent from Connecticut, would play the same role in the debate over President Obama’s Afghanistan policy that he played in the struggle over Iraq: as a champion of the surge-style counterinsurgency that Obama endorsed in March and as a defender of a [...]
The White House announced Monday that the president will travel Thursday night to Copenhagen to make a personal appearance before the International Olympic Committee to promote Chicago as the host city for the 2016 Summer Games.
President Obama is taking his eye off the ball, his critics say, chiding him [...]
