At 8:16 on the morning of August 6, 1945, the world got a glimpse of its own mortality. At that moment, the city of Hiroshima was obliterated by a fireball that sent waves of searing heat, then a deafening concussion, across the landscape. Three days later, a second...
Ann Coulter went Jungle Red* on neoconservatives Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney this week over their demands that GOP Chair Michael Steele resign. The fun stuff comes at the back end of her WorldNetDaily column on Wednesday. First she seems shocked that her fellow...
Regular antiwar.com contributor Tom Engelhardt NAILS it - - - on Democracy Now! too. Tom Engelhardt on "The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s" Here: http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/18/afghan
Judge Andrew Napolitano interviews Kelley Vlahos on Barack Obama's order to assassinate American-born Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
The most ominous thing about Obama in Afghanistan is that Bush at least did us the courtesy of lying about Iraq as if "we the people" actually mattered. --Serious Soundbytes
From Big O's speech: [W]e have made progress on some important objectives. … In Afghanistan, we and our allies prevented the Taliban from stopping a presidential election and -- although it was marred by fraud -- that election produced a government that is...
If things run on schedule, Mr. Obama will announce tomorrow that he and his organization will be sending approximately 34,000 more U.S. troops to harass and sometimes kill men, women and children (as "collateral damage") in Afghanistan. And then he has to sell...
ORZALA ASHRAF: What would you expect from those children who lost their feet or their arm or their mother or their father during that kind of bombing? What would you expect from them? Do you expect them to join the peace process? Do you expect them to say, “I have...
Like Justin, I'm pulling for Iran's Greenies. No, Mousavi's worldview and goals aren't radically different from Ahmadinejad's; if they were, his candidacy wouldn't have been approved by the clerics. Nor are the people out in Tehran's streets good little junior...
Rachel Maddow, on the other hand, appears to be a keeper. In the clip below, she explains how President Obama, principled opponent of prosecuting or even investigating past crimes, plans to lock people up for future crimes. Forever. To be fair, that is literally...
