It looks like Rand Paul, son of Rep. Ron Paul, has won the Republican Party nomination for senate against establishment candidate Trey Grayson in Kentucky tonight. The media has declared this a "big win for the Tea Party" -- because it would seem to fit the familiar...
Andy Worthington, an absolutely tireless seeker of the truth as it pertains to the continuing U.S detention of terror suspects abroad, has decided the mainstream news has done such a pathetic job at covering what could be one of the most important national security...
I just interviewed Joseph Casias, the poor man with an inoperable brain tumor and sinus cancer so bad you can barely understand him when he speaks, who was fired in November by Wal-Mart after he tested positive for marijuana. For the last four months, Casias had been...
As tensions escalate between the administration and Israel, there seems to be growing concern that the American people at large are getting wise to their own interests; an anxiousness over whether we will start looking more closely at whether Israel's national...
A post/picture like this, everyday, might get the point across (though, here, it's preaching to the choir). But as Mr. Cox suggests, something like this would have to be squeezed onto the boob tube somewhere between segments of "Lost" or after those hilarious "Slap...
How's this for a recipe that defies the seeming laws of common sense: First, take Blackwater, otherwise known as "Xe," a private security contractor that has been accused of abusive, hostile and violent behavior against the indigenous population of Iraq -- including...
The number of words that President Obama expended on the war in Afghanistan during the much anticipated State of the Union address last night:Â exactly 92. Considering that the President's entire speech was 7,308 words, you could have missed his fleeting reference to...
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...
(Cross posted at @TAC) I know it is a tired trope, but it's helpful to look at the ultimate success of Counterinsurgency, or the vaunted COIN doctrine dominating the popular ethos of the American military establishment, as a three-legged stool. As it is conceived, or...
To answer Jim Bovard's earlier question -- will President Obama "out-BS" Bush? -- I think no, after watching Obama tonight, it seems that Bush set a perverse standard that even an over-achiever like Obama can't exceed. But that didn't seem to be Obama's goal tonight....
