According to a report from the Pentagon's testing and evaluation office, the Defense Department wants to "target an adversary's space capability by using a variety of permanent and/or reversible means to achieve five possible effects: deception, disruption, denial,...

I know Reason magazine gets its fair share of abuse around here, but this gem from Tim Cavanaugh is my early frontrunner for comment of the year:I think it says more about how contemporary liberals view themselves than about our "debased political terminology" that...

After this spittle-flecked screed (and it keeps going) from a commenter at Liberty & Power, resident AWC-basher Steven Horwitz adds the following Deep Thought:As someone who thinks ALL foreign aid should disappear, including, of course, aid to Israel, I still believe...

I think Jonathan Schwarz of A Tiny Revolution has figured out the answer to The Great Perfume Atomizer Mystery.

I'm mad at Hunter S. Thompson. I'm mad at the way he lived his life, whacked out of his gourd, so to speak, on any chemical you can think of, and how he met his death, apparently a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Either way, it was a waste. After becoming a...

Radley Balko, one of the "credentialed bloggers" at CPAC (CPAC stands for Bush Cult-now you know) writes in response to Yglesias and Atrios expressing "alarm" over a speech given by Rep. Chris Cox. Cox's remarks seem to indicate that he suffers under the Fox Delusion...

Quotable - Tom Knapp: Has it occurred to anyone that George W. Bush appointing a "national intelligence director" is sort of like Larry Flynt appointing a "national abstinence czar?"

Bruce Gagnon is reporting, on his blog "Organizing Notes", that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has come out in favour of a long-term occupation of Iraq; Hillary Clinton, who hopes to become president, is on the Sunday morning talk shows saying that our troops might be in...

Saturday, between 4 and 6 pm EST, Scott Horton will interview the tastefully named Scott Horton (they're not the same person ... at least I don't think they are.) about the rotten apples who run the "Special Access Program", a black ops torture and humiliation scheme...

Manadel al-Jamadi Today, we have a new term to add to our ever-growing torture vocabulary list along with strappado and waterboarding. It's a technique called "Palestinian hanging," not because Palestinians do it, but because Palestinians are hung that way by...