Defending of Crazy Talk
A controversial article arguing prominent war critics should be targeted as enemy combatants is worth discussing.
A controversial article arguing prominent war critics should be targeted as enemy combatants is worth discussing.
In an interview, Donald Trump reveals that when it comes to foreign policy he has no idea what he’s talking about.
Prosecutors in South Carolina announced that they will seek the death penalty for Charleston shooter Dylann Roof.
Donald Trump is leading in Iowa, and very few things make sense anymore.
Dylann Roof has been indicted in Federal Court for completely unnecessary reasons.
The Afghan Army isn’t doing so well against the Taliban right now.
Any discussion of the Iran deal has to be about realistic alternatives, not fantasies.
For the first time since 1961, there will soon be an American Embassy in Havana, and a Cuban Embassy in Washington. It’s well past time that this happened.
The people who continue to claim that the Confederate Flag is about anything other than hatred, racism, and a nation that celebrated slavery are lying to you and to themselves.
The Administration announced changes to the way the government handles hostage situations, but it really doesn’t amount to much.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appeared in public for what is likely the last time in his life, apologized for the crimes he committed, and was unsurprisingly sentenced to death by a Federal Judge.
PolitiFact rates President Obama’s claim that other countries don’t have mass shootings at rates comparable to America”Mostly False.”
A word that has come in recent years to be used to refer chiefly to Muslim fanatics obviously applies to a man who murdered nine people because they’re black.
Marine special operations forces have called themselves “Raiders” for years. Now it’s official.
The Supreme Court ruled that states don’t have to grant license plates that display the Confederate flag. Their decision has the potential to seriously harm the First Amendment.
A well-founded fear of ISIS seems to be drawing many of the former Soviet Republics in Central Asia closer to Moscow.
Hillary Clinton opened a new phase in her campaign for President yesterday with a speech in New York City.
Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us.
A Federal Appeals Court In Washington has ruled that the military tribunal convictions of one group of Guantanamo Bay detainees was unconstitutional.
The American people don’t believe that liberty should be sacrificed in the name of security, but their leaders largely don’t care.
An Air Force general is bragging about a targeting technique being used against ISIS.
Many provisions of the Patriot Act lapsed at midnight, but apparently the world hasn’t ended.
The Senate returns tomorrow to try to pass an extension of the PATRIOT Act before it expires, but it may not be able to do so.
Another step forward toward ending a U.S. policy regarding Cuba that was outdated twenty years ago.
Several of the top representatives of soccer’s governing body have been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in New York.
The first batch of email from Hillary Clinton regarding the 2012 attack in Benghazi have been released, and they don’t reveal anything we didn’t already know.
The Senate went home last night without passing a bill to renew the PATRIOT Act, which expires at the end of the month.
President Obama is taking steps to reduce police militarization, but there’s much more that needs to be done.
Lindsey Graham says that, if elected president, he would summarily kill anyone thinking about joining ISIS.
Final justice, but far from the end of the road.
Fresh off an election victory, British Prime Minister David Cameron is set to propose a series of new measures to crackdown on extremism that raise serious civil liberties concerns.
Seymour Hersh is out with a conspiracy theory about the death of Osama bin Laden that just doesn’t make sense.
Not surprisingly, the House Committee re-investigating the Benghazi attack seems more concerned with scoring political points than fact-finding.
A Judge in New Jersey has ruled that the twin children of a New Jersey woman were in fact fathered by two different men.
Largely in reaction to revelations about N,S.A. surveillance, Germany has cut back on its intelligence cooperation with the United States.
Two men were killed last night before they could carry out what appears to be a planned attack on an anti-Islam event in Texas.
An attack on al Qaeda outposts in January resulted in the death of two hostages, but also resulted in the death of two high value al Qaeda targets.
Not surprisingly, the Select Committee established by House Republicans to investigate something that has already been investigated multiple times, will be in operation well into the Presidential Election season.
After months of resistance, the White House will allow Congressional review of any deal with Iran, but it may not hamper negotiations much in the end.
An unsurprising outcome as we approach the second anniversary of the bombing at the Boston Marathon.
In a twist fitting for an M Night Shyamalan movie, there is growing evidence that there was malfeasance by the co-pilot that resulted in a deliberate crash of Germanwings flight 9525.