A Washington Post piece on Ron Paul's rise in the polls comes with the usual "but he can't win" caveat, and there's also this nugget: "Yet, while the libertarian-leaning Texas congressman is earning support for his tight-fisted fiscal positions, he’s so out of step...
Eli Clifton at ThinkProgress directs us to a recent interview with Mitt Romney on Bill O'Reilly's show in which Romney's war rhetoric gets "challenged by an unlikely source": Interesting. Romney doesn't really respond to O'Reilly's estimation of the consequences of...
Washington Post, " Secrecy defines Obama's drone war": Since September, at least 60 people have died in 14 reported CIA drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal regions. The Obama administration has named only one of the dead, hailing the elimination of Janbaz Zadran, a top...
Have the Republican debates this year caught up with the number of times Obama has declared the Iraq war over yet? Just wondering. Oh we love to kid the president about endlessly ending the war in Iraq, which killed possibly over a million, ruined a society, and...
Congratulations to the New York Times for catching up with what Antiwar.com has been covering since the first days of the Arab Spring and long before. Nicholas Kristoff's Op-Ed on Saturday had the title "Repressing Democracy, With American Arms," referring to U.S....
For those of you who have yet to see the brutality of Egyptian security forces on civilian protesters over the weekend: It obviously cannot go without mention here that these security forces and the military junta which has ordered this latest crackdown are supported...
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In Arab culture there is a strong imperative to not speak ill of the dead, but I'm going to have to make an exception for Christopher Hitchens. Knowing Hitchens, I'm sure he'd approve. Hitchens had a tenacity and ferociousness that would not compromise for...
Way back in June President Obama declared, against the legal advice of his top administration and military lawyers, that the war he decided to wage in Libya was exempt from the War Powers Resolution, which requires him to get permission from Congress for engaging in a...
The Obama administration is in accord with majorities in both chambers of Congress regarding the National Defense Authorization bill's provisions authorizing indefinite detention without charge or trial for terrorism suspects, possibly including American citizens...
