Peace and Security

July 12, 2007 - A recent study has found that children exposed to lead at a young age are more likely to co

July 5, 2007 - USA Today reports that the National Guard has turned around a recruiting slump, meeting its target for new sign-ups for the first time since 2003. As of May, the Guard had 351,400 troops -- the highest total since November 2001, when a surge of post-/11 patriotism swelled the ranks.

June 25, 2007 - It's summer -- peak season for military recruiters, with curious high school grads looking at their options.

June 21, 2007 - U.S. Fatalities in Iraq by Military Base

May 10, 2007 - The Associated Press reports that more than 10,000 soldiers from Fort Campbell Kentucky's 101st Airborne Division are among 35,000 troops put on notice to prepare for deployment to Iraq later this year.

April 27, 2007 - A surprise witness has surfaced in a federal lawsuit scheduled to begin in July against a private Alabama-based coal company that allegedly colluded with a right-wing paramilitary group to murder union leaders in Colombia.

April 27, 2007 - For politics-watchers like myself, sometimes it's hard to tell whether events that the media hypes as "a major sea change" -- growing opposition to the Iraq war (even in Kentucky!), the 2006 mid-term elections -- are in reality just small and fleeting episodes, or truly a sign that something deeper is happening in t

April 24, 2007 - Mohammed Atta, the man named by the FBI as one of the masterminds behind the 9/11 terrorist strikes against the United States, had previously investigated the possibility of carrying out an attack on a chemical plant in eastern Tennessee.