From The American Conservative:Watch the video of the webcast originally aired live on Monday, “Who Watches The Watchmen?: The Post 9/11 Security State From Then to Now,” on the 16th anniversary of the attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. Click here to watch...
Autopsy: WH ‘gate crasher’ shot by cops in the back of head
Miriam Carey is dead and will never be able to tell us what happened on that fateful Oct. 3 day when she led police on a high speed chase through the busy downtown streets of Capitol Hill and was killed shortly after, before she could even exit her car, her 1-year-old...
Why the GOP will lose ’16 (hint: it’s spelled S-H-E-L-D-O-N)
Gross. That's really the only word that comes to mind after reading Dana Milbank's account today of the recent GOP pilgrimage to Sin City to kiss the ring of Sheldon Adelson, the 9th richest man in the world, and quite possibly the most ideologically driven of them...
DC Shooting: Shame on You New York Daily News
UPDATE: More grist: "law enforcement sources" now telling NBC News that Carey, "may have thought that President Barack Obama was stalking her." Old boss tells NBC affiliate that she was fired from old job for being "too rough" with dental patients. UPDATE 10/6: Little...
Really? Anticipated Study Finds No Evidence of Iraqi Birth Defects
Human rights and health observers have been waiting a year for the results of a World Health Organization/Iraqi Health Ministry study that would, at last, shed some "official" light on a problem that local doctors and journalists have been reporting for years: that a...
Why is Kim Kagan Throwing Young Analyst Under the Bus?
By now, if you have been following the political minutiae of the Syria debate in Washington, you know that a young Syria analyst (who turned out to be a pro-opposition advocate) was fired yesterday from her job at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), which is run...
Calling Out the NOBama Mommas and Company
The debate over Syria is on, and it looks like libertarian-leaning Republicans like Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Justin Amash are leading a strong Republican charge against President Obama's plan for airstrikes in Syria. Much to the consternation of neocon spear points...
They’re Baaack: Neocons Launch Push for Regime Change
In most Hollywood horror franchises we know that the villains – take your Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, or your rakish Freddy Krueger – always come back. No matter what painful death or injury felled them in the previous romp, an endless string of potential victims...
Iraq: This is what it looks like when you rip off the Band Aid
As of July 1st, there have been 1,405 people killed in Iraq, mostly civilians. That number is likely to change by the time you read this -- just yesterday, 45 people died as a result of numerous terror attacks across the country. One bomb had been planted near a cafe,...
Cry Baby Defense Contractors Doing Just Fine
Not more than a year ago Lockheed Martin's Bob Stevens was all but pulling at his hair and gnashing his teeth in anticipation of sequestration. Clearly doing the Republican warhawks' bidding ahead of the presidential election, he warned that Lockheed may not be able...
