Criminalize the Iraq War: And back off Iran!

I turn on the television. Somehow, I must have slept longer than I thought. It's already the middle of 2008 and the presidential debates are going on. The Democrat is Mike Gravel, and he's attacking the war. He is saying he wants to pull out of Iraq immediately. He...

Last week, it was announced that NATO's anti-Taliban raids in Kandahar province had killed approximately 50 civilians. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, for his part, let it be known that he is 'losing patience' with all the civilians NATO has been killing. As the US...

Three more names have just been added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC—thirty-two years after the war ended. One was actually killed by "friendly fire" in 1966. The other two died recently from wounds they received during the Vietnam War. There are...

Apropos yesterday’s "Tenet v. Perle" post, it might be useful to note that James Woolsey, Perle’s colleague on the Defense Policy Board (DPB) and fellow-board member of any number of neoconservative groups, was virtually ubiquitous on television and in the print...

The Scottish people sent a message to formerly "Great" Britain in the recent elections: "Scottish nationalists committed to independence from Britain became the biggest party in the Scottish parliament on Friday in elections which left a political headache for Prime...

National Review's T.J. Walker on the only authentic .... person in last night's GOP debate: "Ron Paul has the unfortunate distinction of looking and sounding wacky and impish, even when he says entirely reasonable things. He brilliantly and succinctly positioned his...

Speaking of Reason magazine being clueless and all: now that scientists have found significant abnormalities in the brains of veterans afflicted with Gulf War Syndrome and normal folks, will the magazine that increasingly doesn't deserve its name apologize to all the...

Is somebody in the government trying to shut down the Cryptome web site?

The spin on the GOP debate last night is just getting up to speed. Here's good ol' David Weigel of Reason magazine, "Ron Paul is asked why everyone on stage was wrong about the war, and Paul sticks to 'a policy of non-intervention.' He's a bit loud, but more concise...