Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 11:03:06 am
Declared goals and specific limits are what past policy has been missing. Well, here it is. Whereas, on August 21, 2013, the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attack in the suburbs of Damascus, Syria, killing more than 1,000 innocent Syrians; Whereas these flagrant actions were in violation of international ...

Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:15:37 pm
Here's a good post from US Naval War College Professor Tom Nichols, on what he sees as The Realities of the Coming Syrian War. My list is directed both to pro and anti-interventionists, in hopes of pointing out things that are true and need to be addressed no matter which ...

Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:24:40 am
YouTube Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech In honor of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, a moment when America took decisive action to reverse the legacy of slavery. And a warning that the American right wing is working hard ...

Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 1:26:39 pm
You know how Glenn Greenwald and Wikileaks and all the other people who idolize Bradley Manning are always vehemently denying that Manning's massive document theft hurt the United States in any way? Well, Bradley Manning doesn't agree: Bradley Manning Apologizes for Hurting the US. FORT MEADE, Md. -- Bradley Manning has ...

Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 6:38:57 pm
Ernie Pyle (center left) with a U.S. Marine patrol during the Pacific campaign in World War II. Photo Credit: U.S. Department of Defense Soldiers looked up to Ernie Pyle, who stood 5-feet-7 and may have weighed 140 pounds. Politicians almost never complained about what he wrote. Companies wanted him ...

Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:04:11 pm
So much for having a national conversation about race. Conservative commentators claimed they'd welcome an honest discussion about the thorny issue in the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict. But within moments last week of President Obama offering up his personal reflection about the trial and how the killing of ...

Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 12:48:01 pm
Today the right wing propagandists at Breitbart.com are announcing a new partnership: 'GETTYSBURG 150' BROADCAST SCHEDULE: BREITBART NEWS PARTNERS WITH N3 TO OFFER 20 HOURS OF COVERAGE. Breitbart News will partner with Next News Network (N3) to live-stream 20 hours of coverage and honor the 150th Anniversary of Battle of ...

Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:14:33 pm
This afternoon the always loquacious Glenn Greenwald took to the Twitters to make one of those self-aggrandizing, absurdly overblown comparisons for which he's well-known: Are there any meaningful differences between the actions of Dan Ellsberg & Edward Snowden? — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 13, 2013 Since Greenwald has blocked me on Twitter, ...

Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:26:58 am
Anti-Muslim demagogue Pamela Geller is featured at Breitbart.com, with another of her by-the-numbers rants spreading hatred against Muslims -- not to mention outright lies: Where Are the 'Moderate' Muslims? In the wake of the monstrous beheading of a young British man in broad daylight by Muslims who cited the Qur'an ...

Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:09:44 am
EDL leader Stephen Lennon, who goes by the name Tommy Robinson, (left) with EDL supporters outside The Queens Arms pub in Woolwich The drunken racist British yahoos known as the English Defence League took to the streets and rioted yesterday following the attack on a soldier in London: Woolwich: Riot Police ...

Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:57:15 am
In the continuing saga of Republican derangement, Lindsey Graham has been desperately trying to pander to the Tea Party elements in his state (who hate him) by launching crazed illogical attacks on President Obama, repeating "Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi" over and over. And now Graham is trying to picture the Boston ...

Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:12:50 am
A Des Moines anti-abortion activist has publicly proclaimed that "it will be a blessing to the babies" if someone shoots the people who recently reopened a Kansas abortion clinic. Dave Leach's comments are being denounced by the leader of Iowa's largest anti-abortion group, who says such talk is immoral and ...

Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:56:42 am
Breitbart.com, the site dedicated to unrelentingly dishonest right wing attacks on President Obama, today has a hit piece by former Washington Times writer Kerry Picket, who just can't stop doing that ol' Benghazi Boogaloo: 700 Retired Military Special Ops Tell Congress to Form Select Committee on Benghazi. And being Breitbart.com, they're ...

Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:50:46 am
Clements was the latest victim of increasingly active violent right-wing extremists. While American politicians and the U.S. public continue to focus on the threat from jihadist extremists, there seems to be too little awareness that this domestic form of political violence is a growing problem at home. From 2002 to ...

Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 5:37:57 pm
As potential oil spills go, this one is relatively small, but it's a harbinger of things to come if the Keystone XL project is approved: Everything You Need to Know About the Exxon Pegasus Tar Sands Spill. In Greek legend, every time the winged horse Pegasus struck his hoof to ...

Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 10:21:25 am
Sen. James Inhofe may be the leading Republican anti-science climate change-denying religious fanatic, and he's proud of it. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) sees criticism of him in a recent documentary about climate change as a badge of honor. He's among the targets in "Greedy Lying Bastards," a recent film that claims ...

Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:15:59 pm
DERPAt CPAC, the incredibly dense Jim Hoft won the "Accuracy in Media" award, and today he's demonstrating the peerless skill that led to this honor with a post desperately trying to spin away the embarrassing little white supremacist incident at yesterday's festivities: BUSTED: Supposed 'Racist Event' at CPAC 2013 a Big ...

Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:41:47 am
Attorney General Eric Holder has responded to Sen. Rand Paul's 13-hour filibuster filled with paranoid conspiracy theories about drones killing American citizens on US soil, with a single word. Dear Senator Paul: It has come to my attention that you have now asked an additional question: "Does the President have the ...

Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:14:53 pm
You know how right wingers love to give each other awards with lofty-sounding titles? Well, I do believe we have an all-time winner for the Most Ludicrous Right Wing Award Award, as the dumbest, most unprofessional right wing blogger of them all, Jim Hoft, will receive the Accuracy in Media ...

Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 7:46:22 pm
Here's the Los Angeles Times' latest report on the incendiary gas canisters that ended the standoff with mass-murdering ex-cop Christopher Dorner: In Wake of Dorner Shootout, Questions Over Use of 'The Burner'. Dorner, the fired Los Angeles cop suspected of killing four people in a campaign of revenge, had been ...

Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 2:37:04 pm
David Perdue was on his way to sneak in some surfing before work Thursday morning when police flagged him down. They asked who he was and where he was headed, then sent him on his way. Seconds later, Perdue's attorney said, a Torrance police cruiser slammed into his pickup and ...

Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:00:14 pm
A group of eight Iowa Republican legislators has introduced a bill that defines all abortion as "murder," sending women and doctors to jail even in cases of rape or incest, and even if the abortion involves nothing more than a single-celled zygote. Really! That's what they actually said. Iowa Republican Rep. ...

Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:52:18 am
An ex-cop with a stockpile of weaponry is being sought by police in Los Angeles after being implicated in a double murder in Irvine, and the police searching for him seem to have pretty itchy trigger fingers of their own. I'm staying inside today. Los Angeles (CNN) -- A former ...

Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:48:00 am
In a hearing at the Connecticut state capitol yesterday, pro-gun demonstrators actually heckled the father of a 6-year old boy killed in the Newtown school massacre. There are no words. The sometimes boisterous public hearing -- after nearly four hours of testimony from State Police, parents of slain Newtown first-graders and ...

Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 6:14:22 pm
There's some new information in this report. There are some excerpts below. The whole thing is here. For at least a week, 15-year-old Nehemiah Griego had been planning the attack, authorities said. After shooting his mother and three siblings in their beds, he ambushed his father as the pastor ...