Scott Horton of Harper's has a great piece online on how three detainees at Gitmo were killed during interrogations. The military responded with an elaborate coverup that claimed the three men committed suicide as an "act of asymmetrical warfare." The military's story...
Televangelist Pat Robertson said Wednesday that earthquake-ravaged Haiti has been "cursed" by a "pact to the devil." "Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it," he said on Christian Broadcasting Network's "The 700 Club."...
I just got an e-mail from an Israeli PR firm that proclaimed, in bold, caps-lock, underlined type: “Israelis More Tolerant of Islam Than Swiss.†The release, datelined Jerusalem, came on behalf of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, a coalition created by New...
It wasn't 15 minutes into the coverage of this afternoon's massive and certainly disastrous earthquake just 10 miles from Port-au-Prince on CNN, when Wolf Blitzer cut off the weeping Haitian ambassador to the US to go to a CNN staffer who spent another 2-3 minutes...
I'm not sure why Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D, decided to surprise everyone and announce his retirement Tuesday. I'll admit right up front that I am not an expert on North Dakota politics, nor a thorough observer of the man's nearly-30 year career (17 years in the...
When Historians Against the War was created back in 2003, libertarian historian David Beito was excited about the opportunity to forge alliances across ideological lines and pursue an agenda of peace above all else. Having purged Beito and fellow libertarian Thaddeus...
Normally I'm not a reader of those advice columns in newspapers, but this one caught my eye on the basis of the title alone. Hello Ms. Vicki, My husband is refusing to re-enlist in the Army in March. I think he has lost his mind. He claims that he is tired of all the...
Dear friends: I just learned, late this New Year's Eve, of my friend Mordechai Vanunu's outrageous arrest, facing further imprisonment, for "meeting with foreigners" (of which I have quite openly been one, on several occasions). I plan to do whatever I can to bring...
Wednesday’s Washington Post contains a rundown of the Obama administration’s current thinking on Iran sanctions. The bottom line: administration officials are increasingly open to sanctions, but want to find ways to target the Revolutionary Guard and other...
On Larry King, Ben Stein said that Ron Paul calling the US "occupiers" was "using the same antisemitic argument we've heard over and over." Former game show host and economist Ben Stein first came into prominence when he worked for notorious antisemite Richard...
