Andrew Sullivan makes a rather bizarre charge offhandedly: “Who among the neocons would have thought that one of George W. Bush’s final legacies would be bringing pogroms, bombings and genocide to Christians in his new zone of freedom?”
The lawyer who argued The Pentagon Papers case points out how Julian Assange is not Daniel Ellsberg, and how prosecuting him could have disastrous results for press freedom in the United States.
The reaction to President Obama’s recent recess appointments provide us with yet another example of bipartisan hypocrisy.
With just over a week to go before the 112th Congress convenes, battle lines are already being drawn in battle over the defense budget.
The TSA’s crusade to fondle whomever they please continues.
Now that the US has ratified New Start, it’s Russia’s turn.
With DADT Repeal now on its way to being fully implemented, the right is now claiming that it poses a threat to the religious liberties of military chaplains. As with their other arguments, this one is totally without merit.
Sarah Palin waded into the foreign policy pool today with a piece about Iran, and it was about as empty as most of the other ideas on Iran that we’ve heard over the last six years or so from everyone else.
The repeal of DADT has resulted in some odd claims being made.
Unless you paid close attention, you probably missed most of the coverage of the war in Afghanistan in 2010.
Now that gays will be allowed to serve openly in the military, the command will have some new issues to address.
The repeal of DADT may open the doors for ROTC to return to many elite institutions, if cost doesn’t get in the way.
Washington D.C.’s 34 year-old Metro system is about to become the latest stage for Security Theater.
One has to love the Telegraph headline “Drone kills white al-Qaeda pair in Pakistan mountains.”
Marine Commandant James Amos is going all-out to keep gay Marines in the closet, saying allowing them to serve openly could get men killed.
A new poll shows that the American public is discontented, nervous about the economy, not entirely sure they can trust the new GOP majority in Congress, and has no idea what it wants from Washington. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
The archaic practice of calling one’s seniors by titles rather than their first name is actually quite useful.
There’s been much talk recently about treason charges in the Wikileaks case, an most of it has been entirely wrong.
WikiLeaks’ reveals that DynCorp, a government contractor, provided drugs and child sex slaves to Afghan police–and the State Department helped cover it up.
The hunters in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and West Virginia alone would comprise the largest army in the world.
