Jeff Stein has a great piece on how the most prominent CIA apologist for waterboarding has finally 'fessed up that he didn't know what he was talking about. Much of the news media treated this CIA "expert" like a hero back in 2007. I assume they will ignore his...
How much damage can one man inflict and still be treated like a saint and savior in Washington? Ben Bernanke's career answers that question. The Establishment media has rallied around the current Fed chairman as if his reign was the triumph of wisdom and goodness -...
Scott Horton of Harper's has a great piece online on how three detainees at Gitmo were killed during interrogations. The military responded with an elaborate coverup that claimed the three men committed suicide as an "act of asymmetrical warfare." The military's story...
This is the 65th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Bulge. While most Americans who are aware of the battle learned of it through Hollywood movies that portrayed valiant U.S. resistance to the German Wehrmacht, the truth is far more embarrassing to the U.S....
This is the 150th anniversary of the hanging of John Brown. When he attacked Harper's Ferry with a handful of followers, the butcher of Kansas helped sow the seeds of the Civil War. Few things would have made Brown happier than the thought of hundreds of thousands of...
Obama’s speech from West Point tonight may drive the final wooden stake into liberals’ hope that their guy would create a Brave New Order in Washington and the world. The fact that Obama is following in Bush’s footsteps - talking to an audience of captive...
Three Cheers for Doonesbury today! Unfortunately, prominent half-wits take their own values from this TV show. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told an assembly of judges in the summer of 2007: "“Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles . . . . He saved hundreds of...
Transparency International reported yesterday that Afghanistan is the most corrupt nation in the world - except for Somalia. Heckua achievement, if the only nation on earth that is more shady is one that is full of pirates… Karzai is making Marion Barry look like...
CNN headline: Karzai calls for unity, end to corruption in Afghanistan It is astounding to see the western media treat Karzai like a legitimate winner and someone who has any credibility to fight corruption. This is akin to how the Soviet media treated the election...
The new film, THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA: DANIEL ELLSBERG AND THE PENTAGON PAPERS, will be shown in Washington at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center this Thursday (10/29) at 7 pm. Details here. Ellsberg will take part in panel discussion after the film is shown....
