War With Iran: A Very Bad Idea

This poignant story brings home the point of how long the invasion of Iraq has dragged on. In the spring of 2003, this blogger was a sophomore in high school. He writes: We were supposed to be welcomed as liberators. The war was fast and efficient, the barely existent...

Our own Scott Horton has won the Austin Chronicle's "Best of Austin 2007" award for "Best Iraq War Insight and Play-by-Play." Scott won the "Critic's Choice" award for Antiwar Radio (a division of Antiwar.com), which is based in Austin and broadcast live on KAOS-FM....

The Washington Post's Dana Milbank on the only cure for Nancy Pelosi's rictus "smile": "She entered the room beaming and, over the course of an hour, smiled no fewer than 31 times and got off at least 23 laughs. But her spirits soured instantly when somebody asked...

Bush today vigorously opposed a congressional resolution to finally recognize as genocide the Turkish slaughter of more than a million Armenian Christians.  Bush declared: "We all deeply regret the tragic suffering of the Armenian people that began in 1915. This...

I have consistently criticized Americans Against Escalation in Iraq -- an antiwar group that has been running antiwar ads and doing grassroots political work -- for what I viewed as their partisan strategy in pursuing an end to our involvement in Iraq, particularly...

Wow! If even half of what Richard Poe claims in his "Hitchens Unhinged" piece over at Taki's Top Drawer is true, what remains of the drink-soaked Trotskyist poppinjay's reputation is shot. Here's a hot excerpt: “At the end of the event as he staggered, sweating and...

In the Michigan debate, economic imbecile John McCain just recommended that Ron Paul read The Wealth of Nations. Oh Jesus. Paul had just commented on how America's fiscal insolvency is a result of maintaining a welfare-warfare – especially warfare – state. The...

Today at TomDispatch, Robert Lipsyte looks at recent media sideshows involving Michael Vick, Marion Jones, Barry Bonds, Bill Belichick, et al., and wonders if there's trickeration afoot: After all, the powers-that-be love to promote sports scandals which encourage a...

A few blocks from me, on the side of a bodega, a small wall-side billboard always has a poster for the armed forces that is quickly defaced. The latest one I noticed just the other day: a local armed with permanent marker spelled out exactly what he feels about the...