Army Officers Criticize Rebuke of Gen. McChrystal Army officers gathered at a convention in Washington this week said senior White House officials should not have rebuked Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, for saying publicly that a scaled-back war effort would not succeed. The hallways at the Walter E. Washington Convention […]

Barack Obama cancels meeting with Dalai Lama ‘to keep China happy’ The decision came after China stepped up a campaign urging nations to shun the Tibetan spiritual leader. It means Mr Obama will become the first president not to welcome the Nobel peace prize winner to the White House since the Dalai Lama began visiting […]

Help, quick – I’ve unscrewed the top on a ticking bomb Like any responsible parent, I would not leave a loaded gun in the children’s playroom or keep my painkillers in their sweetie tin. But it turns out that for two years there has been a nuclear bomb in one of my kitchen cupboards, between […]

Obama wins popularity contests, not much else President Obama is following the advice of that great philosopher Woody Allen, who once said that “eighty percent of success is showing up.” In health care legislation, foreign relations and, now, the Olympics, Obama believes his very presence is enough to bend the world to his whim. But […]

Afghan soldier shoots dead two American troops An Afghan soldier on guard at a joint base with U.S. troops shot dead two American servicemen and wounded two others as they slept, a provincial official said on Saturday. Shahedullah Shahed, spokesman for the governor of Wardak province west of Kabul, said the shooting took place after […]

Chicago ELIMINATED from 2016 Olympic bid in first round! Øbama’s bidding for Chicago Mayor Richard Daley was kicked to the curb by IOC today in the first round. Toyko booted in second round. Will it be Madrid Or Rio?? Letterman admits having sex with female employees A CBS News employee is accused of trying to […]