Obama proudly declared yesterday that ours is a "nation of laws" at the same time he announced that CIA torturers would not be prosecuted for their crimes. Life in Washington is one damn paradox after another. Kudos to the American Civil Liberties Union for their...
Two senior British judges accused the U.S. of threatening to stop sharing intelligence with Britain if the British Government released details of the extraordinary rendition of British citizen, Binyam Mohamed. Why? Perhaps this explains it:...
Dear Antiwar.com Supporter, Please let the incoming presidential administration know that you demand real change in our interventionist foreign policy. Ask President Elect Barack Obama to make a stand for peace by dumping Bush appointee Secretary of Defense Robert...
Well, OK, he didn't say that explicitly. But he did say it implicitly. A basic logic lesson and please forgive me if you think I'm talking down to you. I'm really not. It's just that I'm shocked at how many people, including McCain, don't seem to get logic. If I say,...
Patriotically correct, that is, the most common and most oppressive form of political correctness in our post-9/11 world. From this morning's speech: But the remarks [by Rev. Jeremiah Wright] that have caused this recent firestorm weren’t simply controversial. They...
