It’s been a while since we’ve heard much from former President George W. Bush. To many of us, it’s a relief to finally be done with the man who entered the White House at the head of the world’s...
When it comes to presidents, there are few who I would rank below George W. Bush. From Iraq to the financial crash and everything in between, his presidency was largely a series of profound screw-ups that...
Sometime earlier this month we awoke to the news that one of the five Americans killed April 6 in Afghanistan was a 25-year-old woman, Anne Smedinghoff, from River Forest. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University,...
After more than a decade at war, American troops are finally coming home from Afghanistan with combat missions expected to be complete by 2014. Similarly, the last American troops left Iraq in December...
As the Senate continues to debate President Barack Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), the opposition to his confirmation among his former Republican colleagues...
