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Emmy Award winner Dennis Miller brings his take-no-prisoners, suffer-no-fools style to CNBC’s prime time lineup. Emmy-award-winning comedian Dennis Miller is the host of CNBC's "Dennis Miller" (M-F, 9-10 p.m. ET/PT), a topical interview talk show featuring reasoned discourse, opinion and humor. Miller also serves as executive producer of the program, which is produced by NBC Studios.

ArchiveE-mail AuthorSend to a Friend   Print Version JAN. 26, 2004: WAKE UP Thunder on the Right “A Concerned Bloc of Republicans Wonders Whether Bush is Conservative Enough.” That was the headline on the New York Times’ report on this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference – and the story that followed was an acute piece of journalism. I’m in the middle of my second book tour in the space of twelve months. I’ve been traveling from one talk-radio station to another, listening both to the callers and the hosts, when the mikes are on and when the mikes are...

The United Nations is the tooth fairy of American politics: Few adults believe in it, but it's generally regarded as a harmless story to amuse the children. Since 9/11, however, the UN has ceased to be harmless, and the Democratic presidential candidates' enthusiasm for it has ceased to be amusing. The United Nations has emerged at best as irrelevant to the terrorist threat that most concerns us, and at worst as an obstacle to our winning the war on terrorism. It must be reformed. And if it cannot be reformed, the United States should give serious consideration to withdrawal. The...

President George W Bush was sent a public manifesto yesterday by Washington's hawks, demanding regime change in Syria and Iran and a Cuba-style military blockade of North Korea backed by planning for a pre-emptive strike on its nuclear sites. The manifesto, presented as a "manual for victory" in the war on terror, also calls for Saudi Arabia and France to be treated not as allies but as rivals and possibly enemies. The manifesto is contained in a new book by Richard Perle, a Pentagon adviser and "intellectual guru" of the hardline neo-conservative movement, and David Frum, a former Bush speechwriter....

<p>The United Nations is the tooth fairy of American politics: Few adults believe in it, but it's generally regarded as a harmless story to amuse the children. Since 9/11, however, the UN has ceased to be harmless, and the Democratic presidential candidates' enthusiasm for it has ceased to be amusing.</p>

America vs. Human Nature From the audacious title, to an opening that quotes Thomas Paine's rebuke of the "sunshine patriot," to a proposal for immediately widening the war against al-Qaeda to include Hamas and Hezbollah, An End to Evil is a worthy election-year polemic from Richard Perle and David Frum. The work is clearly meant to help define foreign policy for a second Bush Administration, and it may well do that if sloganeering continues to displace actual strategic planning. Perle and Frum (P-F, for now) are very good at what they do: arguing for a robust exercise of American power...

The results of the Iowa caucuses are being hailed as a victory for the tough-minded wing of the Democratic Party. But how tough really are the Iowa winners? Senators John Kerry and John Edwards, the top two finishers, may have shunned the wild rhetoric of Howard Dean. But they share their party's general unwillingness to think hard or realistically about the war on terrorism. In a December speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Senator Kerry promised to treat the United Nations as a "full partner" in the war on terrorism — despite that organization's inability even to define terrorism,...

JAN. 12, 2004: LATE ENTRY Reviewing Reviewers I promised last week responses to the Washington Post and Economist reviews of An End to Evil - but I have to respond to the weekend’s Paul O’Neill story. The big whoop-whoop in the O’Neill interview is his claim that the Bush administration was secretly plotting from the very start to remove Saddam Hussein. But it’s worse than that! Well before President Bush was ever elected, Congress passed a law declaring the removal of Saddam a goal of US policy: the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998. The plot was so secret that Congress...

Neo-Conservatism, Hard Core Analysis - By Jim Lobe If hard-core neo-conservatives Richard Perle and David Frum had their way, the Bush administration would be issuing ultimatums on virtually a daily basis. WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (IPS) - In their new book, 'An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror', Perle, the well-connected former chairman of the Defence Policy Board (DPB), and Frum, a former White House speechwriter, call for the administration to, among many other things: - Actively promote, presumably through direct action, the secession of the oil-rich eastern province of Saudi Arabia, unless the Saudi government provides...

Front Page The following are excerpts from the recently released book An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror by hardcore US neo-conservatives Richard Perle and David Frum. Perle is the well-connected former chairman of the US Defense Policy Board, while Frum is a former White House speechwriter. These excerpts deal specifically with Asia. Given Perle's very close relationships with senior hawks in the administration of President George W Bush, these positions probably quite accurately reflect what Vice President Dick Cheney and Pentagon civilians are arguing at the highest levels in the administration. North Korea The South...

Bush Iraq war advisors launch tirade against France 12 January 2004 French opposition to the Iraq war has prompted two of President George W. Bush's Iraq war advisors to recommend limiting US military ties to France and seeking to isolate it in Europe. France's President Jacques Chirac "volunteered as Saddam Hussein's most important ally and protector," Richard Perle and David Frum said in their new book "An End to Evil." The authors, whose promotional tour began Monday, promote a so-called neo-conservative use of US military force to pacify the world. They take aim at countries they said stand in the...

When discussing foreign policy and the war on terror, the press often divides officials into two.groups: hard-liners and pragmatists. "Hard-liners" are actually far more pragmatic and realize that the war on terrorism requires vigorous, decisive action; in contrast, the policies promoted by "pragmatists" are grounded in ideological dependence upon failing international organizations and denial of the realities of the post-September 11 world. Under the leadership of President George W. Bush, two approaches to American foreign and security policy have emerged. One approach is founded on vigorous, decisive action, including a readiness to use military power, against the terrorist enemy. Its...

Sorry if this is too late for some, but I just came across the show. It airs and repeats late here.

<p>Under the leadership of President George W. Bush, two approaches to American foreign and security policy have emerged. One approach is founded on vigorous, decisive action, including a readiness to use military power, against the terrorist enemy. Its exponents are the hard-liners. You know the names: Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Abrams, and so on.</p>

Hawks deliver manifesto to Bush Free Iran at ActivistChat.com! By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 31/12/2003) President George W Bush was sent a public manifesto yesterday by Washington's hawks, demanding regime change in Syria and Iran and a Cuba-style military blockade of North Korea backed by planning for a pre-emptive strike on its nuclear sites. The manifesto, presented as a "manual for victory" in the war on terror, also calls for Saudi Arabia and France to be treated not as allies but as rivals and possibly enemies. The manifesto is contained in a new book by Richard Perle, a Pentagon...

We are still at war - (Filed: 31/12/2003) Following September 11, 2001, George W Bush warned that the war on terrorists and their sponsors would be long and of global reach. Persistent pursuit of such a goal was always going to be hard to maintain, whether because of the softer options offered the electorate by the political opposition or through bureaucratic inertia. Sensing this, two neo-conservatives, David Frum and Richard Perle, have issued a renewed wake-up call in a book to be published tomorrow . "We can feel the will to win ebbing in Washington," they write in An End...

Andrew Sullivan is right and alas the Alliance for Marriage is wrong about the meaning of President Bush’s remarks on same-sex marriage on ABC's "Primetime" on Tuesday. Here is the transcript of the president’s exchange with Diane Sawyer.DIANE SAWYER: Massachusetts Supreme Court said that they were not, they did not feel the law was in a position to block gay marriage. When you talk about the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman, are you saying you will absolutely support a Constitutional amendment against gay marriage and against gay civil unions? PRESIDENT BUSH: If necessary, I will support...

Add one more name to the list of those who believe that Howard Dean will prove a cataclysmic disaster for the Democratic party: Al Gore. Why else would Gore have endorsed him? Think about it. Does Gore still wish to be president? Pretty clearly, he does: Otherwise he would have found himself a real job and moved to LA, rather than dabbling in business while maintaining a theoretical domicile in Carthage, Tennessee. But how to gain the presidency? Gore was right to decide against running in 2004. The problem for him was not just that incumbents are hard to beat,...

"Howard Dean wants the white trash vote," wrote Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer in recent mockery of the Vermonter. "That's clearly what [Dean] meant when he said he wanted the votes of 'guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.'"After Dean was savaged by Al Sharpton, who called the Confederate flag an "American swastika," Krauthammer was rhapsodic. His humiliation serves Dean right, Krauthammer chortled. He should never have pandered to Southern "yahoos" and "rebel-yelling racist redneck(s)."What is it in the wiring of these neocons that they so loathe white Southerners who cherish the monuments, men and memories of the Lost...

NOV. 25, 2003: MEDICARE The basic deal on Medicare was supposed to be this: Republicans would offer Democrats a prescription drug benefit in exchange for major reform of the ailing entitlement. Instead, Republicans now seem to have traded the benefit for potential reform. I’m not disparaging the significance of Medical Savings Accounts or competition between plans and the other good things contained in the administration's Medicare reform bill. These positive changes might amount to something important later – but they also might not. Meanwhile, the drug entitlement willl grow and grow and grow. I recognize the political imperatives that led...