Remember when President Obama decided it was time to bomb Syria and was only stopped by a wave of widespread grassroots protest? After announcing his intent to bomb, Obama decided to seek congressional approval and go through the motions of asking permission –...
The Intercept has an article on the "U.S. Institute of Peace," a government agency founded in 1984 supposedly dedicated to promoting "nonviolent resolution of conflicts": author Lee Fang is shocked – shocked! – that USIP chairman Stephen J. Hadley, a former national...
We’re in the summer doldrums of the news cycle, a perfect time for our government and the media – or do I repeat myself? – to drop certain inconvenient stories down the Memory Hole. My job, of course, is to retrieve them…. Remember Ukraine? I seem to recall blaring...
As the smoke wafted up into the already smoggy Los Angeles air, a group of young libertarians watched as Jayel Aheram burned his "Stand With Rand" t-shirts. He had two of them, a token of his former esteem for the "libertarian-ish" presidential candidate and Senator...
The Wall Street Journal report that jailed Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard will be released on the thirtieth anniversary of his conviction – November 21 – is clearly an attempt by the Obama administration to quiet Israeli opposition to the Iran deal. And it is just as...
Peter Beinart asks some pretty good questions: he wants to know why the same crowd that lied us into war in Iraq isn't completely discredited when it comes to their opposition to the recently concluded deal with Iran. No, he doesn't put it quite that way, in part...
Longtime readers of this column will recall my Bizarro World theory: the idea that the 9/11 terrorist attacks ripped a hole in the space-time continuum and pushed us into another dimension, one known – to all us fans of Superman comics – as Bizarro World. This is a...
Wesley Clark, the retired general who almost started World War III with Russia, has a bright idea: why not set up internment camps for "radicalized" Americans in order to stanch the threat of domestic terrorism? Yes, he actually said this, and, what's more, MSNBC...
At a news conference the other day, House Speaker John Boehner took up his role as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's pro bono publicist by announcing that "a majority of Congress" opposes the Iran deal. You could almost hear the laughter emanating from the...
The historic agreement signed by the P5+1 and the government of Iran marks a turning point in America's relations with the world. It reverses the momentum of nearly fifteen years of constant warfare and puts us on a path to peace. In terms of our relations in the...
