Via Matthew Feeney at Reason, Irish politician Clare Daly calls Obama a "war criminal" and asks if he's going for the "hypocrite of the century award."

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made no bones about his view of Twitter as a threat to his regime, dubbing it a "danger to society." Other officials in his government ruled Twitter "deadlier than car bombs." Twitter sure could make some Turkish...

The U.S. Department of Defense guided the National Security Council's development of an official Obama administration position on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers clean-up of toxic waste site in Pennsylvania. U.S. taxpayers will pay up to half a billion to clean up...

This isn't much positive to say about the virtues of Congressional oversight in the aftermath of Edward Snowden's leaks of the NSA's vast domestic surveillance apparatus. Congress has been little more than an active participant in the systematic violation of...

Copperhead, which Ron Maxwell directed from my adaptation of Harold Frederic’s novella, opens in theaters June 28, with a second wave of openings July 19. You can find where it’s playing at copperheadthemovie.com. Herewith my introduction to the newly published...

Within his July 1 Time cover story, you almost wish Joe Klein would just say it -- how he yearns for one of those national service programs always suggested as the answer, at least among the chewy authoritarian center, to all of America's problems. He never does,...

Judge Napolitano thinks he is debating an imposter, this isn't the John Stossel he knows:

I am reading the heartbreaking suicide note of Daniel Somers, a US combat veteran who spent several years fighting in Iraq. Mr. Somers was only 30 years old when he took his own life, after being tormented by the horrific memories of what he experienced in Iraq. He...

The first response to Dave Swanson's "Drones for Christ" report in Sojourners magazine this month is to rub your eyes. This can't be real, it's too satirical -- a Christian university, sitting on $1 billion of assets in the conservative belt of old Virginia, run by a...

The Guardian, which was supposedly live-blogging Edward Snowden's departure from Moscow and his flight to Cuba, is reporting the whistle-blowing computer whiz is not on the plane -- much to the dismay of a sizeable contingent of reporters, who hurriedly booked seats...