The Reconstruction

The Terri Schiavo case seems to be making more Americans aware of the fundamental changes in the Republican party that have taken place over the past ten years. The new Republican party has abandoned basic conservative principles and taken to extraordinary levels of hypocrisy to please the religious right. Consider the following: President Bush, who [...]

In today’s edition of Slate Magazine, Christopher Hitchens chides The New York Times for getting the story about systematic looting at Iraqi weapons sites “upside down”. Hitchens argues that while the failure of coalition forces to secure the arms is problematic, the real story is that Saddam did posesss WMD. He asks: How can it [...]