Author: Eric Garris

Everyone’s talking about the political upset at CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) over the weekend, where Ron Paul won the presidential straw poll.

A panel that wouldn’t have been allowed at CPAC a few years ago was well-attended at this year’s conference: ‘You’ve Been Lied To: Why Real Conservatives are Against the War on Terror.’

Co-sponsored by the Campaign for Liberty, Ladies of Liberty Alliance, and the Future of Freedom Foundation, it was attended by over 300 people. The speakers were:

• Karen Kwiatkowski — retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel
• Philip M. Giraldi — former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer, current Francis Walsingham Fellow at The American Conservative Defense Alliance, and weekly columnist for Antiwar.com
• Jacob Hornberger — founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation
• Bruce Fein — former associate deputy attorney general in the Reagan administration

Below is a video of the event, in two parts:

CPAC 2010: “Why Real Conservatives Are Against the War on Terrorism, Part 1” from The Future of Freedom Foundation on Vimeo.

CPAC 2010: “Why Real Conservatives Are Against the War on Terrorism, Part 2” from The Future of Freedom Foundation on Vimeo.

Thanks to the Future of Freedom Foundation for this video.

Judge Andrew Napolitano hosted Antiwar.com’s Angela Keaton on Fox’s ‘Freedom Watch’ today.

Check it out:

This year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, DC will have an unusual event.

The panel, “You’ve Been Lied To: Why Real Conservatives are Against the War on Terror” takes place on Saturday (Feb. 20) at 2pm. Participants are Antiwar.com columnist Philip Giraldi, Jacob Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation, and former Pentagon official Karen Kwiatkowski. It is sponsored by the Campaign for Liberty and the Ladies of Liberty Alliance.

Associated Press issued a story yesterday (Monday) entitled “Iran moves closer to nuke warhead capacity.” It was full of inaccurate and misleading information implying that Iran had admitted trying to enrich weapons-grade nuclear material. The story appeared on a wide variety of media.

Last night, Antiwar.com news editor Jason Ditz issued a story refuting the AP story.

This morning, Associated Press recalled the story without explanation and replaced it with another, much less inflamatory story written by a different author.

It is important to question the mainstream media and not let them get away with helping the warmongers with their agenda.

Skills for the real world?

Joshua Tabor, a soldier stationed at the Lewis-McChord base in Tacoma, Washington, decided to punish his 4-year-old daughter for failing to correctly recite the alphabet.

As his daughter ‘squirmed’ to get away, Tabor said he submerged her face three or four times until the water was lapping around her forehead and jawline.

Police went to Tabor’s home after he was arrested after being seen walking around his neighborhood wearing a Kevlar military helmet and threatening to break windows. When they arrived, Tabor’s girlfriend told them about the alleged torture and the terrified girl was found hiding in a closet, with bruising on her back and scratch marks on her neck and throat.

Asked how she got the bruises, the girl is said to have replied: ‘Daddy did it.’

Tabor admitted to police that he chose the CIA torture technique because his daughter was terrified of water.

War correspondent Joe Galloway is retiring today. Galloway has been covering wars around the world for close to a half-century. The more wars he covered, the more anti-war be became. Antiwar.com has been honored to carry his columns over the last few years.

Read his farewell column here.