Justin Raimondo is doing a daily brief commentary for The Hill, Capitol Hill's newspaper of record. Today's question is "What must Sarah Palin accomplish on her book tour?" His answer is here, along with those of (so far) Larry Sabato and Glenn Reynolds. Also, check...
Following up on our coverage of the campaign to destroy the National Iranian-American Council (NIAC), Josh Rogin at the Cable has more information on the background to the attacks. The most interesting revelation concerns Hassan Daioleslam, the Iranian-American...
Many of you have written wondering where the heck are Gordon Prather's columns these past two weeks. The bad news first: Doc Prather has had a fairly serious medical problem come up recently, and it has hindered his ability to work. The good news is that he's going to...
The campaign against the National Iranian-American Council and its president, Trita Parsi, intensified today with the publication of a long hit piece in the Washington Times by neoconservative journalist Eli Lake. The piece’s unusual length appears to be an attempt...
Some thoughts on the Gitmo 9/11 suspects that are supposedly behind 9/11 and are due to come to New York for a civilian trial: 1. Why haven't they been brought to trial years before now? We didn't just discover that they were behind the attacks. 2. Why are we...
Satirist and entertainer Harry Shearer makes a good point today on HuffingtonPost.com: When the Fox network staged a special Veterans' Day version of its NFL pregame show at Bagram AF Base last Sunday, two hours was apparently not long enough to mention one...
Andy Worthington is wrapping up a speaking tour in the US introducing the new film: Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo. Here is his talk in Fairfax, Virginia, sponsored by the Future of Freedom Foundation.
Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut may be the most destructive politician in the United States. Combining the worst ideas of the right, the left, and the religious, he essentially seeks to punitively tax the world in order to bomb it for the sake of Israel. Despite...
An outrageous thing has happened today in Germany: the Defense Minister has used the word "war" to describe the, uh, war in Afghanistan. As Justin Raimondo might say: Germans are shocked -- shocked! You see, these people burdened by national collective memories of...
CNN headline: Karzai calls for unity, end to corruption in Afghanistan It is astounding to see the western media treat Karzai like a legitimate winner and someone who has any credibility to fight corruption. This is akin to how the Soviet media treated the election...
