Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:30:59 pm
Here's former NSA counterintelligence officer John Schindler on what we know so far about Edward Snowden's shady connections to Wikileaks and Russian espionage: Snowden, NSA, and Counterintelligence. All roads here lead to Wikileaks. We know that Snowden in late 2012 reached out to Glenn Greenwald and other members of the ...

Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:03:00 pm
C-SPAN has live video of John Kerry and Chuck Hagel answering questions about Syria from the wonderful people in the House of Representatives. (The ones who bothered to show up, that is.) Here's a thread to discuss... UPDATE at 9/4/13 12:40:32 pm Just in: BREAKING: Senate panel approves resolution giving Obama authority to use ...

Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:07:22 pm
Yep. John McCain was playing poker on his iPhone during the Senate hearing on action against Syria. As the hearing continues, our ace photographer Melina Mara reports she spotted Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) "passing the time by playing poker on his iPhone during the hearing." UPDATE at 9/3/13 4:48:10 pm Scandal! ...

Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:53:20 am
Image: Talk Radio News Service via Flickr.com Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) vowed on Monday that any increase in the debt limit would require cuts to the "mandatory side" of government spending. "Now, it's time to deal with the mandatory side," Boehner told the crowd at a fundraiser for Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID) ...

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 ...

Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 3:05:54 pm
The GOP has bet everything on white and is throwing the dice with arrogance even though it can't afford to lose even a single chip. The only hope that the GOP have of winning is to make some inroads into the minority vote: to put it simply, white people ...

Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:30:05 am
Well, the story that's all over the Internets today is that Bradley Manning has decided to become Chelsea Manning. Bradley Manning, the Army private sentenced to military prison for leaking classified documents, revealed he intends to live out the remainder of his life as a woman. "I am Chelsea Manning. I ...

Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:00:09 am
Once again, we see a naïve, deluded young person paying the price for the insane nihilistic libertarianism promoted by Julian Assange and Glenn Greenwald: Judge Sentences Bradley Manning to 35 Years. A military judge on Wednesday morning sentenced Army Pfc. Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison for leaking hundreds ...

Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:13:26 pm
Today we have news that Julian Assange's idol, Ron Paul, will be joining the president of the John Birch Society to address one of the most virulent antisemitic groups in North America: Ron Paul, Birch President to Speak at Anti-Semitic Conference. Beyond the obvious, what do a far-right Italian politician, ...

Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:54:10 am
In an effort to reshape the debate over immigration reform, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Preibus harshly criticized Mitt Romney's self-deportation comments from the 2012 GOP primary while speaking to reporters on Thursday, approximately a year and a half too late to do any good. Republican leaders have long feared the ...

Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:43:58 pm
Video Over the past few weeks, Rand Paul has racked up an impressive list of things he doesn't understand, including Abraham Lincoln, why people like Medicare, the deficit and reality. You can now add Obamacare to that list, along with health care in general -- even though he is an ophthalmologist. When the ...

Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:04:41 pm
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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 ...

Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:05:49 am
Rand Paul, who opposes the Civil Rights Act and defended a white supremacist staffer who wrote an article titled "John Wilkes Booth Was Right," is reaching out to the African American community again by stating, "I Don't Think There Is Any Particular Evidence" of Black Voters Being Prevented From Voting. Rand ...

Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:19:57 pm
Writing for World Nut Daily (where he shares column space with the likes of Pamela Geller, Rick Santorum, and John Rocker), Pat Buchanan crawls out of his cave to defend Putin's new anti-gay laws in Russia. Our moral and cultural elites have put Putin on notice: Get in step with ...

Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:23:02 am
Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) Press Release: Rep. John Lewis: No Praise for Snowden The Website of Congressman John Lewis, Serving the 5th Congressional District of Georgia Aug 8, 2013 "News reports about my interview with The Guardian are misleading, and they do not reflect my complete opinion. Let me be clear. I do ...

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 11:56:32 am
One of the most contentious and controversial policies of the Obama administration has been the use of drones against terror suspects in foreign countries, and today Secretary of State John Kerry said the US is planning to stop drone strikes in Pakistan. During a television interview Thursday, Secretary of State ...

Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:39:58 pm
Remember the last time the religious right in Texas tried to sneak Christian creationism into public school science classes? Well, they're back. Actually, they never went away, and the Republican anti-science religious fanatics on the State Board of Education are making another big play to influence the textbooks that teach American ...

Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:34:57 am
Pfc. Bradley Manning, who stole hundreds of thousands of classified documents and released them to Wikileaks, has been acquitted of "aiding the enemy" but convicted of multiple counts of espionage, and could still face an effective sentence of life in prison. Manning was convicted of 20 of the remaining 21 ...

Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 12:55:53 pm
On one level this is great news because everyone wants to see a resolution of some kind. But it's a bit difficult to get very hopeful after the last, oh, two decades or so: US Says Israeli-Palestinian Talks to Start Monday. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department says Israeli and ...

Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 10:40:14 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujYfbuK t22o Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said she was "banned" from certain talking points while running alongside Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on the Republican ticket in the 2008 election. Palin criticized the media for "ingratiating themselves with [Obama] and vice versa" and trying to "destroy these whistleblowers" who were talking ...

Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:54:56 pm
At LGF we've noted many times the curious phenomenon of the Unison Wingnut Chorus -- the almost instantaneous coordination of talking points throughout the right wing blogs and media. And of course, there's nothing spontaneous about it; like good little authoritarians, wingnut bloggers and journalists are following directions from a ...

Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:16:23 pm
My hometown, the city where I was born & raised, the region where I still live and work, has filed for bankruptcy. This is the first time that a major American city has fallen. Here is a sample of the celebration on Twitter of self-proclaimed "patriotic Americans." These wingnuts also do not ...

Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 7:19:26 pm
YouTube The Nation's George Zornick reports: Ugly Opposition to Immigration Reform Comes Back to Capitol Hill. Ken Crow, who used to be president of Tea Party of America until he bungled logistics of a Sarah Palin speech and is now affiliated with Tea Party Community, got up and started talking ...

Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 7:57:20 am
More: Rand Paul Stands by His 'Southern Avenger' WASHINGTON –- In an interview with The Huffington Post, Sen. Rand Paul stoutly defended an aide who, as a radio shock jock in South Carolina, praised John Wilkes Booth, heaped scorn on Abraham Lincoln and wore a ski mask emblazoned with the ...