Maybe The Recruits Realized It Is Hard To Dodge Bullets

According to the AP, it seems that the Army has been ineffective at recruiting new targets, the lowest in 34 years.
This is one of the motivating factors for why members of the Establishment are promoting the Dream Act.
Perhaps their next move will be drafting prisoners into the ranks. After all, it wouldn’t be the [...]

Gareth Porter

Neocons Live in Fantasy World

Training the Iraqi Army

Iraqi Army Training (YouTube)via Intel Dump

The key to mid-east peace is already in the lock

Does the world face what some style as Armageddon because American pro-Israel groups still believe out-dated Israeli “public relations“?
According to Ha’aretz chief political columnist AKIVA ELDAR in an October 8, 2007 Democracy Now! interview, while the Israel lobby is “a very important instrument in order to pursue Israel’s policy… they’re a little bit behind the [...]

The Giuliani Lexicon: A Noun, A Verb, and 9/11

Joe Biden justified his presidential campaign by getting off the best line of Tuesday night’s debates. Opining that Rudy Giuliani is “probably the most underqualified man since George Bush to seek the presidency,” he averred:
“There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence — a noun, a verb, and 9/11. There’s nothing else! There’s nothing else! [...]

Luke Ryland

Let Sibel Edmonds Speak!

Greg Barker

Showdown With Iran

Christ or Caesar?

Patrick Henry College is a distinctively Christian liberal arts college in Virginia known for being friendly to homeschoolers. The college’s motto is ”For Christ and For Liberty.” Imagine my surprise when I saw in the college’s latest “News & Events” that “for a growing number of PHC upperclassmen and alumni, the motto ‘for Christ and for liberty’ has translated [...]

Blood on the Floor: Raimondo versus Fake “Libertarians”

Over at Taki’s Top Drawer, I’m bashing the fake “libertarians” who are snarking at Ron Paul:
“A piece over at The Politico on Ron Paul is snarky yet informative, which seems to be the signature style of that site: “Libertarian Paul wins young minds” gives us brief profiles of young Ron Paul enthusiasts, naturally framing the [...]

Editor Bob Vindicates the FBI

My essay on “The FBI’s Right to Threaten Torture” has been deftly refuted by Bob Weir, the editor of The News Connection down in Texas.   Here is the response he sent The Future of Freedom Foundation:
“Keep your eyes on this case, because it could help determine how far feds can go to destroy innocent people.” [...]

The State vs. Paul Jacob, Again

Paul Jacob, political reformer, libertarian and prominent term-limit activist, is in major legal trouble again. As some readers may know, in the early 1980s Jacob spent five and a half months in prison for resisting draft registration and thus violating the Selective Service Act – the longest prison term for any draft resister since Vietnam. [...]

Candace Gorman

Injustice Reigns at Guantanamo Bay Prison