Originally appeared at The American Conservative.If there is one country for which the Thursday assassination of Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani was not a lamentable moment, it is Israel. According to reporting right after the popular Iranian military leader was...
Revenge? Military Industrial Complex Sponsors Eisenhower Ornament
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The military industrial complex gets its revenge – it small ways and big – against President Dwight Eisenhower, who not only named it but warned against it’s proliferation during his farewell address...
Court: FBI Must Destroy Memos Calling Antiwar.com a Threat
In a major victory for Antiwar.com, free speech and journalism, a federal appeals court has ruled that the FBI must expunge surveillance memos that agents had drafted about the website’s co-founders Eric Garris and Justin Raimondo in the early years following the 9/11...
The American Conservative Forum Mulls US Foreign Policy in the Trump Era
WASHINGTON – What is the fate of realism and restraint in the Trump era? The consensus among the foreign policy luminaries brought together by the American Conservative on Friday: Don’t expect much from the White House, even though global realities, i.e.,...
Watch: Special American Conservative Webcast on 9/11 Anniversary
From The American Conservative:Watch the video of the webcast originally aired live on Monday, “Who Watches The Watchmen?: The Post 9/11 Security State From Then to Now,” on the 16th anniversary of the attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. Click here to watch...
Autopsy: WH ‘gate crasher’ shot by cops in the back of head
Miriam Carey is dead and will never be able to tell us what happened on that fateful Oct. 3 day when she led police on a high speed chase through the busy downtown streets of Capitol Hill and was killed shortly after, before she could even exit her car, her 1-year-old...
Why the GOP will lose ’16 (hint: it’s spelled S-H-E-L-D-O-N)
Gross. That's really the only word that comes to mind after reading Dana Milbank's account today of the recent GOP pilgrimage to Sin City to kiss the ring of Sheldon Adelson, the 9th richest man in the world, and quite possibly the most ideologically driven of them...
DC Shooting: Shame on You New York Daily News
UPDATE: More grist: "law enforcement sources" now telling NBC News that Carey, "may have thought that President Barack Obama was stalking her." Old boss tells NBC affiliate that she was fired from old job for being "too rough" with dental patients. UPDATE 10/6: Little...
Really? Anticipated Study Finds No Evidence of Iraqi Birth Defects
Human rights and health observers have been waiting a year for the results of a World Health Organization/Iraqi Health Ministry study that would, at last, shed some "official" light on a problem that local doctors and journalists have been reporting for years: that a...
Why is Kim Kagan Throwing Young Analyst Under the Bus?
By now, if you have been following the political minutiae of the Syria debate in Washington, you know that a young Syria analyst (who turned out to be a pro-opposition advocate) was fired yesterday from her job at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), which is run...


