I was subwaying into Washington last night when I learned of a grave new terrorist peril. The train’s driver kept repeating, “For safety and security reasons, please do not take pictures or video recordings of Metro trains and buses.â€Â He recited this core...
I appreciate LewRockwell.com and Antiwar.com posting my article on "Every Day is 1956: The Hungarian Revolution Today." Hungarians have taken to the streets this past week to denounce a lying government. The Socialist Prime Minister confessed grossly deceiving...
Newsday’s Walt Handelsman, aided by Roy Furchgott, has a wonderful animated cartoon featuring singing spies. The cartoon is here. This makes the National Security Agency wiretap issue so simple even a congressman might be able to get the point. ...
The feds have become super vigilant in tapping our phone calls, tracing our movements, and intruding into our lives over the last 5 years. Wouldn’t it be great to have hidden microphones around the White House this morning to hear what was said by dignitaries,...
Some of the nation’s best antiwar cartoonists will be appearing this weekend at the Small Press Expo - America’s premier cartooning and comic arts festival - in Bethesda, Maryland this Friday and Saturday.  Many of the cartoonists appeared at a book event...
ABC News revealed this afternoon that Foley was engaging in “Internet sex†with a teenage boy while Foley was voting for the Bush administration’s Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriation in 2003.  ABC reports: This message was dated April 2003, at...
The prize for the headline of the year goes to today’s Washington Post for the following gem: “Many Rights in U.S. Legal System Absent in New Bill†The Post article on the military tribunal bill the Senates passed yesterday details some of the legal and...
The following Republican members of the House of Representatives voted against the Torture-"Terrorist" Tribunal bill (HR 6166) today. Ron Paul, Roscoe Bartlett, Wayne Gilchrest, Walter Jones, Steven LaTourette, James Leach, Jerry Moran. These folks deserve hearty...
The Washington Post’s Tom Toles has a cartoon on Congress and torture that is worth its weight in thumbscrews. The cartoon perfectly captures how Congress is partnering with the Bush administration in sanctioning U.S. barbarity. The cartoon is here - at least for...
The key players in the U.S. Senate have agreed with the Bush administration to retroactively legalize torture by U.S. government agents. The compromise deal struck yesterday will block prosecution for CIA officials who tortured detainees since 9/11. I would expect...
