Author: Duke1676

       “Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead,” said Scrooge. “But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is...

With a small ceremony on April 26, 2003, control of Prince Sultan Air Base was handed back to the government of Saudi Arabia. Since the mid-nineties it had been the premier US air base in the region and the nerve center for all...

When the Downing St Minutes were first published in beginning of May, one of the oft quoted lines was: “The Defence Secretary said that the US had already begun “spikes of activity” to put pressure on the...

Carrie Underwood won “American Idol” last night.  It’s apparently one of the biggest stories of the day. I really don’t know much about it since I only watched the first few episodes when the really...

With the “sluggish” coverage of the Downing St. Minutes and the attempts to discredit Newsweek, it might seem as if a free press is truly in the last throws of death.  Having been branded for years with...