As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know. United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld-February...
Most presidents have an intelligible foreign policy. For some it’s bold enough to earn a grandiose name — think George H.W. Bush’s “New World Order” — or at least be labeled “doctrine.” James Monroe’s was to keep other powers out of the western hemisphere, Harry Truman’s to counter the expansion of communism. President Trump has called his “principled realism” but,...
New Gov. Roy Cooper and the U.S. Supreme Court could play major roles in determining what happens on Jones Street this year.
When it was announced that Condoleezza Rice was writing her memoirs and that she would take two books to do it, I thought that it might be overkill. I was wrong. Two books are needed to chronicle the life of this extraordinary woman... [S]he opens her second book, No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington, on her last day as Secretary of State. As she walks down a hall to meet with the Israeli foreign minister one last time, she is thinking, “My, you’ve lived a lot of history.” At that point, the book returns to 9/11, which becomes the cornerstone of her tenure as national security adviser... However, Rice’s book is not just about 9/11. She also provides readers with insight into the eight years of the Bush administration. Rice does more than talk about being national security adviser and secretary of state; in addition, she provides a job description.
Democrats won an impressively broad victory in state races this year. No doubt about it. But it was not a deep victory. It was not transformational.
WASHINGTON — President Bush retains overwhelming support among much of the military’s professional core despite a troubled mission in Iraq and a decorated combat veteran as an opponent, a Military Times survey suggests. Bush leads John Kerry 73 percent to 18 percent in the survey of 4,165 active-duty, National Guard and Reserve subscribers to Army Times, Navy Times, Marine Corps Times and Air Force Times. Though the results are likely not representative of the opinions of the military as a whole, they are a disappointment to Democrats who hoped Kerry’s record and doubts about Bush would give their candidate an opening with a traditionally Republican group.
While state politicians understandably would like to see the next round of Pentagon base closings bypass North Carolina, they shouldn't take the argument too far.
• Bob Woodward: Bush at War; Simon & Schuster; 400 pp; 2002; $28. I remember Sept. 12, 2001 and the days that followed. The hours and seconds were lost to a constant distraction, a sense of shock, mourning, and confusion that followed me everywhere.
RALEIGH — Calling himself “an equal opportunity offender,” nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist Doug Marlette says many people prefer that he be seen and not heard. Marlette, a resident of Hillsborough, showed a sampling from his 30 years in cartooning, and told the story behind some of them at a John Locke Foundation luncheon March 31. Categorized as liberal by his syndicate, Tribune Media Services, Marlette displayed his ability to parody the extremes of all political beliefs.
The NC House has tentatively passed a bill to protect property owners against local governments that seek to remove their buildings or signs without compensating them. It's a welcome application of constitutional principle.
A penetrating analysis compares the State Department’s plans for a post-war Iraq with the Defense Department’s. Guess which one is more militaristic — and wrong.
