Category: Politics
A Detainee Addresses Congress | Obama’s Adviser Loves Wal-Mart | “Code Words” About Israel
by WS Editors | Jul 1, 2008 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsTorture on Trial—A year after his story appeared in these pages (see the Washington Spectator, July 1, 2007), German-born Turk Murat Kurnaz spoke to the U.S. Congress. By video link from Germany, Kurnaz testified before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee. He was arrested in Pakistan a month after the 9/11 attacks. Like all but 5 percent […]
Henry Waxman Returns to Jack Abramoff
by WS Editors | Jul 1, 2008 | Economy, PoliticsFOUR YEARS AGO A LOBBYIST for one of the Indian tribes Jack Abramoff defrauded of almost $100 million told me that Abramoff bragged about regular meetings with President Bush’s senior adviser Karl Rove—often held outside of the White House to avoid creating a paper trail. The White House didn’t respond to questions about Rove’s relationship […]
McCain’s Gramm Problem | Goodbye to All Those Pastors
by WS Editors | Jun 15, 2008 | Economy, PoliticsDeath and Taxes—UBS stock has fallen from $52 a share, to $23 a share, over the past six months. And now UBS executive Phil Gramm’s political stock is also tanking. Gramm has been doing much of the economic thinking for John McCain, after stepping in and reorganizing the McCain campaign when it appeared to be […]
A Superior Health Care System Without the Middleman
by WS Editors | Jun 15, 2008 | PoliticsIF YOU HEARD OF A COUNTRY that in 1995 introduced single-payer universal health care, with complete freedom of choice of doctors and no waiting lists, you would expect all the presidential contenders to be beating a path there to find out what was happening. After all, this is not Shangri-la. It is Taiwan, which also […]
A Man, a Plan, a Mandate?
by WS Editors | Jun 15, 2008 | PoliticsTHE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HILLARY CLINTON’S health care plan and the health care plan that would serve as a President Barack Obama’s opening hand with what will certainly be a Democratic Congress comes down to the idea of individual mandates. The Clinton plan would force everyone into a pool of the insured, as state governments force […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns
Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones
“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024” – Variety