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Where Government Fails
This is outrageous. As I travel around the country, I frequently meet with veterans, or their family members, who have been stiffed, ignored or mistreated by the Veterans Administration. Paperwork is lost. Claims disappear. It takes months, sometimes years, to get a response. The treatment afforded a new generation of wounded warriors, …
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The Middle East scenario no one wants to talk about.
The IED That Turned A Senior Republican Against The War
Last Thursday the House Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee held a hearing on the Pentagon’s efforts to defeat improvised explosive devices, the homemade bombs that are now the leading cause of death among U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
Lieut. General Michael Barbero, director of the Joint IED Defeat Organization, told …
Latest Column: Romney’s Imaginary Campaign
Not just an imaginary Obama, but also an imaginary electorate.
Bitter, Clinging Moochers
I went back and listened to Barack Obama’s 2008 fundraising gaffe about people in small towns who have grown “bitter” and so they “cling to their guns or religion or antipathy toward people who are not like them …” to compare it with Mitt Romney’s “47%” monstrosity. And it’s interesting: there are similarities, but the differences …
Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd didn’t write a particularly rigorous column about the role of neoconservatives in misleading Republicans over the past decade, but she is no anti-Semite. I don’t think she was at all conscious of the the snake metaphors and other vestiges of Jew hating from the Middle Ages that her critics are now raising. Why should she be? …
Sanity on Iran
A powerful bipartisan group of experts, led by Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski, has issued a policy paper that raises grave doubts about the efficacy of a military attack on Iran. The report raises many of the same concerns I did in this space yesterday. It serves to further isolate the neoconservative extremists who, at the …
Latest Column: The Mitt Mirage
Well, Matt Drudge has linked to this, saying Time Magazine “trashes” Romney. You be the judge…More in sadness than in anger, Matt.
Watch: TIME’s Delegate of the Day
Today TIME’s video team introduces you to Bill Rettinger, a delegate from Florida who says the Affordable Care Act helped him win a fight against cancer.
Grading Republican Prospects at the RNC
A party convention isn’t just a chance to celebrate the current presidential candidate, it’s where the search for the next one begins. TIME grades 10 promising Republicans who spoke at the 2012 RNC in Tampa
What About the Veterans?
Bill Kristol is absolutely right that Mitt Romney made a major mistake last night, mentioning neither the war in Afghanistan nor the troops who have fought there and in Iraq. Kristol and I would probably disagree on Afghanistan: I think Obama has, finally, chosen the right course–get the troops out and continue the effort as a special …
What You Missed While Not Watching the Last Night of the Republican Convention
7:30 p.m. A leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, introduced as only “Ken Hutchins of Massachusetts,” offers the opening benediction. It’s an eloquent tribute to “our kind and loving heavenly …