Listen to Philip Weiss, one of the smartest writers around, on the Israel lobby and Obama: the Lobby, he says, considered Obama "a green no-account," and they all jumped on Hillary's bandwagon without realizing that the wheels were about to come off, while the neocons...
McCain Victory, Part 2
In my previous post I argued that since (1) the only Dem candidates who've been able to win the presidency in the past 4 decades have been white, Protestant, southern males; (2) the country strongly prefers a Democrat for Pres in '08; and (3) most Americans regret...
Wikileaks.org Shut Down by US Court
Wikileaks.org, which has published documents such as the Rules of Engagement for Iraq and Guantanamo Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures, has been ordered to remove its content from that URL by a California court. The court issued an injunction at the request of...
Libertarian Party Resolution on Iraq
The national Libertarian Party (LP) organization has taken their strongest position in favor of withdrawal from Iraq. At their national committee meeting yesterday in Las Vegas, the following resolution passed overwhelmingly. WHEREAS the government of the United...
The Coming McCain Victory’s Lesson for (Antiwar) Democrats
Polls & the politics betting markets suggest that Obama is the candidate most likely to be elected president. I think a McCain victory is more likely so, to get my 2 cents in before the post-McCain victory deluge, I'll explain in advance why I think the Dems will...
McCain: The New Churchill?
As Michael Lind pointed out in a brilliant essay published by The Nation almost exactly four years ago, Winston Churchill has been an icon of neo-conservatism for as long as it has existed. Thus, when the neo-conservatives had more confidence in George W. Bush —...
Sibel Edmonds’ Story Makes the MSM!
Thanks very much to O.E., who writes: It was shocking, but a pleasant surprise, to find Philip Giraldi's "Found in Translation" article reprinted, at least in part, in today's Dallas Morning News. They did leave out the part about the Valerie Plame, but with graphics...
What Were They Thinking?
What was The American Thinker thinking when it published the following bit of prose?:Â "As Obama took steps toward the United States Senate he found a very powerful sugar daddy who would help fund his rise: George Soros. The billionaire hedge fund titan began...
Arlen Specter, American Hero
He's not going to let the powerful get away with breaking the rules and destroying the evidence of their wrongdoing.
Reading My Mind
Barbara Ehrenreich, writing in The Nation:Â "When did you begin to think that Obama might be unstoppable? Was it when your grown feminist daughter started weeping inconsolably over his defeat in New Hampshire? Or was it when he triumphed in Virginia, a state still...


