Someone started a thread on Twitter yesterday with the hashtag #TheBestThingsAboutObamasDrones Here are some of the most amusing zingers thus far - The Best Thing About Obama’s Drones is…. #TheBestThingsAboutObamasDrones they eliminate the need to read an American...

This Saturday Night Live skit was ultimately cut and did not air (for some reason...).

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The United States is violating the human rights of children in Afghanistan, according to a new report from the United Nations, which, according to the ACLU "paint[s] a dark picture of the treatment of juveniles by the U.S. military in Afghanistan..." one where...

The military-industrial establishment now calls U.S. soldiers "warfighters." The problem is, they're not fighting wars anymore. The U.S. hasn't been legally at war since September 12, 1945 when the Japanese forces in Southeast Asia surrendered to Allied Commander...

In the news section, I critique some of Senator Rand Paul's foreign policy speech at the Heritage Foundation yesterday. One aspect of the article that I could not elaborate on is Sen. Paul's support for sanctions against Iran. Following his speech yesterday, I was...

This week it was revealed for the first time that the CIA has a secret airbase in Saudi Arabia from which it has been launching drone strikes for targeted killings in Yemen for at least the past two years. The news media is reporting, and reiterating for emphasis,...

The leaked Justice Department memo detailing the Obama administration's legal rationale for killing US citizens without charge or trial or judicial review or any publicly available evidence of their guilt has raised a lot of questions. One of them, which doesn't get...