Fall meet opens at Churchill Downs

Sassy Image beat Decelerator by two lengths Sunday in the $115,900 Pocahontas as the 21-day fall meet opened at Churchill Downs.

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Dubious Miss wins by 2 lengths at Churchill Downs

Dubious Miss took control approaching the top of the stretch and drew away to win by two lengths over Spotsgone in the $60,747 feature race at Churchill Downs on Sunday.

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Gandolph Finch wins Churchill feature

Gandolph Finch took the lead leaving the backstretch to win Sunday's $49,280 Morluc Purse feature race at Churchill Downs by 1 3/4 lengths.

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Hightap wins Churchill feature

Hightap turned back favored Luster to win Saturday's $111,500 Dogwood Stakes feature race for 3-year-old fillies at Churchill Downs.

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Namaste's Wish wins Churchill feature

Namaste's Wish won the $52,700 feature race Thursday at Churchill Downs by three-quarters of a length.

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Churchill wants to test night racing

Churchill Downs wants to experiment with night racing at its upcoming spring meet.

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Ayers: Colo. professor was fired in `witch hunt'

William Ayers, the former Weather Underground radical whose past made him a lightning rod in the 2008 presidential campaign, said Thursday that fired Colorado professor Ward Churchill became the victim of a "witch hunt" after comparing Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi.

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Papers Show End of Churchill Era

Newly declassified British documents provide a window into heated Cabinet discussions on Iraq, Israeli-Arab relations, protecting the environment, and a secret deal on when the prime minister would step aside for his ambitious No. 2.

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Churchill's Great-Grandson Heads to Prison

The great-grandson of late British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for his part in a multimillion-dollar Ecstasy racket.

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Churchill Kin Pleads Guilty in Drug Case

Nicholas Jake Barton, the great-grandson of former British prime minister Winston Churchill, pleaded guilty Tuesday to drug charges.

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Papers Show Churchill's Cabinet Battles

Winston Churchill had bitter disputes with his Cabinet during the Cold War about building the hydrogen bomb and conducting private diplomacy with the Soviet Union — even threatening to resign at one point, declassified documents showed Thursday.

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Churchill Painting to Be Auctioned

A painting by Winston Churchill, which President Truman called one of his "most valued possessions" after receiving it as a gift from the British prime minister in 1951, will be sold at Sotheby's, the auction house said Saturday.

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Word that Canadas new ambassador to Washington, former Manitoba premier Gary Doer, has invited President Barack Obama to send his kids to see Canadian polar bears creates the possibility of the biggest concentration of awww-inspiring photo-ops ever imagined.

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Americans tend to revere our preeminent honorary citizen, Sir Winston Churchill. That view is apparently not shared by Barak Obama, who made one of his first official acts the unceremonious return to the British embassy of a bust of the great wartime leader that George W.

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Ben Gurion fought hard to maintain Jewish Immigration and even supported partition while most of the Zionist movement did not.

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Winston Churchill, the great and wise British statesman, once stated: If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time -- a tremendous whack.

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The signing ceremony in Moscow was a grand affair. For Barack Obama, foreign policy neophyte and "reset" man, the arms reduction agreement had a Kissingerian air. A fine feather in his cap. And our president likes his plumage.

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"Americans need protection from, not appeasement of, predatory capitalism."

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Mihir Bose - Indian journalist and now the BBC's sports editor, reflects on democracy in India; asks if the British really wanted their former colony to survive; and explores anti-Hindu pro-Muslim British power strategies.

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PART I: An Introduction to American Involvement with War Crimes Trials

"If certain acts and violations of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them. We are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us."

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The jury trial for Ward Churchill's lawsuit against the University of Colorado (CU) is scheduled to begin in Denver District Court on March 9th.

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WASHINGTON — Barack Obama's Inaugural Address on Tuesday was a stark repudiation of the era of George W. Bush and the ideological certainties that surrounded it, wrapped in his pledge to drive the United States into "a new age" by reclaiming the values of an older one.

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--Video Report version on the right of the page.-- Excerpt: From the looks of things, a dog's life is a good life. Between exercise, fresh air and playing with friends, they expend a lot of energy. So how does a pet owner fuel that passion?

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Endgame is a two-volume work by Derrick Jensen, published in 2006, which argues that civilization is inherently unsustainable and addresses the resulting question of what to do about it.

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"Seventy years ago on September 29, 1938, the leaders of Germany, Italy, France and Great Britain concluded an agreement in Munich that has gone down in history as one of the West's greatest political debacles.

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The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison." He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it." An exchange between John Wilkes and the Earl of Sandwich (both English Parliamentarians of the 18th century): –The Ea …

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But when one declares a war that produced Hiroshima and the Holocaust a "Good War," it raises a question: good for whom?

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Is McCain Too Old To Be President? Only If You're Historically Illiterate

Much has been made in this year's early presidential campaign of voter concerns about John McCain's age as an alleged defect for his candidacy.

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Now is the time to stand firm against Islamic imperialism ,for it is too well-suited for the interllectualy bankrupt

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It may be true, as the saying goes, that leaders who ignore history are doomed to repeat it, But it's also true that leaders who carelessly or heedlessly use historical analogies, who twist or hype the lessons of the past, may be destined to make even bigger mistakes than their p …

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"Questioning the past is a good thing, but rewriting it contrary to facts is quite another. In the latest round of revisionism about the Second World War, the awful British and naive Americans, not the poor Germans, have ended up as the real culprits.

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Arthur Herman is a prolific historian known principally for works on British history, most notably his remarkable How the Scots Invented the Modern World.

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"A recent spat on the Chris Matthew's television program ("Dancing with the Stars" we believe?) has provided a splendid micro-study of the various bankruptcies which characterize the low-state of political debate currently at play in the last best hope of mankind.

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As the Qassam rockets continue to rain down upon her, as Syria and Hezbollah ever vow to once again attack her, as her allies and friends do little more than wag their fingers at her, we pray: stand tall proud Israel, for you are truly an icon of the very best humankind has to of …

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"His role in shaping the Jewish state's strategical boundaries, urging the creation of an effective military arm, promoting economic development and relying on the Jews' ability to govern their own country was so crucial that Israel's establishment on May 15, 1948, might have bee …

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It is worth recalling (hat tip Daniel Pipes) that Winston Churchill on p. 50 of From War to War, the first part of the first volume of his 6-part Second World War, proclaimed Hitler's Mein Kampf to be,

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