John McCain performed a miracle tonight. He made Bob Dole’s 1996 Republican presidential acceptance speech look downright eloquent. Shizam, McCain’s performance - at least for the first 40 minutes of the speech - made Bob Dole sound like the combination of Daniel...
Most of you have seen the video of Amy Goodman's outrageous arrest at the Republican convention protests. You may be surprised to learn that charges against her and two of her producers are still pending. Charges against producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole...
MSNBC and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) are reporting that Gov. Palin met this afternoon with the board of directors of the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and Sen. Joe Lieberman to, in the words of one McCain campaign official cited by MSNBC,...
It hasn't been easy to find anything about Sarah Palin's positions on foreign policy issues, but this clip from a speech to her church gives a clue: "Pray for our military. He [Palin's son] is going to be deployed in September to Iraq – pray for our military men and...
When someone from Mother Jones wrote me a few weeks ago with a minor question about one of my LewRockwell.com articles on overseas U.S. troops I had no idea what the magazine was up to. You must check out interactive map that Mother Jones has prepared on U.S. military...
Charley Reese's columns have been a staple at Antiwar.com since the early days. Back in the 90's, we carried Charley's columns from the Orlando Sentinel where he wrote and edited for 30 years. Since 2001, we have featured his insightful columns regularly. Charley has...
[audio:http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/download.php?filename=2008-08-25_027_wilsons_war.mp3] Listen to the great Lew Rockwell, president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, interview John V. Denson, author of A Century of War: Lincoln, Wilson and Roosevelt, about...
I was really surprised by the news, first reported by Laura Rozen on her blog on Mother Jones, that Michael Ledeen, who had been under Richard Perle’s wing at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) for some 20 years, has moved to the Foundation for the Defense of...
"CIA More Fully Denies Deception About Iraq" - in today's Washington Post. The subhead should have read: "This Time We Are Not Lying Like Weasels - We Swear!" The Post article on the CIA's reaction to Ron Suskind's revelations included this tidbit from the CIA's...
I’m still on vacation but, like everyone else, have been quite amazed at the ongoing Georgia crisis, particularly the failure so far of the administration and the campaigns of the two presidential candidates to absorb its potential significance and the need for...
