Self-evident Truths: For Barack Obama on the Eve of His Inauguration as President of the United States. "¢ Israel has the inalienable right to pursue terrorists in the Gaza Strip and everywhere else they are hiding. "¢ Israel has the inalienable right to attack houses, mosques, churches, ...
Salvation was in the air. Repeal, also, was in the air. Two weeks before, the lame-duck Congress had turned a somersault and voted the amendment to the Constitution ending Prohibition. The wets were making merry with applejack, bathtub gin and prohibition hooch. "Beer by Easter," they ...
"I remember as a young lieutenant hearing another senator say something like that back in 1972. What would have happened if President Nixon had bowed to the anti-war pressure and just pulled out of Vietnam? Where would we be then?", the soldier asked the congressman--who replied: "How many ...
"I am going to teach [them] to elect good men."—President Woodrow Wilson, referring to his decision in 1914 to invade Mexico. (Quoted in Peter Smith, Talons of the Eagle: Dynamics of U.S.-Latin American Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. page 51.) When the ...
