At The Daily Beast, James Kirchick blasts the new Ron Paul Institute for being "comprised of anti-Semites, 9/11 truthers, and dictator lovers." Kirchick goes astray on a number of claims, but at one point he links to a piece by former CIA official Michael Scheuer...
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) released a report today that says the Army paid $5 million for two massive incinerators to burn trash on a forward operating base (FOB) in Afghanistan, but then never used them. The incinerators,...
Down in Texas, the George W. Bush Library is having formal opening ceremonies today. In honor of the occasion, here's a few epigrams from my 2004 book, The Bush Betrayal: There are no harmless political lies about a war. The more such lies citizens tolerate, the more...
Yesterday would have been uber-diplomat Richard Holbrooke's 72nd birthday. He died December 13, 2010 while on the job as our top envoy to Afghanistan, and one can't help thinking that whatever 1960's idealism still existed in terms of making that country a better...
Victor Davis Hanson's latest piece at The National Review can only be described as delusional. Hanson makes the argument that Obama's foreign policy is "neo-isolationist" - whatever that means. Most Republicans are still unable to restrain from hurling the...
The Boston Bombings left three dead and more than 100 injured and some have suggested circumventing the rule of law to prosecute the perpetrator. Yet, in Pakistan the unconstitutional drone war continues to kill innocents. On April 14, between 4 and 6 Pakistanis died...
Senator Rand Paul has generated a firestorm over his apparent flip-flop on drones used by the US government to kill American citizens on US soil. Last month, Rand Paul's 13-hour filibuster on the Senate floor was the most sweeping denunciation of the Obama...
There have been a number of news accounts of Tamerlan’s "mentor," a major influence on his path to jihad: the Uncle, Ruslan, has said his name is "Misha," and that he is an Armenian convert to Islam living in the Boston area, balding, with reddish hair, middle-aged...
Judge faces off against Fox News people who think they can pick and choose when rights to due process apply and when they don't:
