Nancy Pelosi called it the "selfie of the year": the group snapshot of the first four women to make it through Marine infantry training. "Fearless," as Pelosi describes them. "Badasses," as onlookers have labeled them. Here is an acerbic quote...
Hamid Karzai: No Ordinary Puppet
Hamid Karzai, he of the signature Karakul hat and brightly colored robes, we hardly knew ye. Karzai, upon whom the Queen of England once bestowed an honorary knighthood, we barely recognize you. Karzai, for whom we have overlooked the drugs, the money laundering, the...
Family of Six Among 15 Killed, 31 Wounded Across Iraq
Ukraine Defends Its Sovereignty
Remember the "Orange Revolution"? You’ll be forgiven if you don’t: Ukraine’s "color revolution," organized, financed, and planned in the West, blends into the rainbow gallery of failed Western-backed regime-change operations launched in the wake of...
You Cannot Negotiate With Iran?
You cannot negotiate with Iran. That is what they told us for years. The Iranian leadership is too fanatical, they are not rational actors, they are “not like us.” One US official even recently said that deception is part of the Iranian DNA. But just over a week ago...
46 Killed, 70 Wounded Across Iraq; Bomber Attacks Sahwa Funeral
20 Killed, 28 Wounded in Scattered Attacks Across Iraq
52 Killed, 30 Wounded As Dumped Bodies Are Recovered Across Iraq
Sex and the NSA
You knew this was coming – well, I certainly did. Human beings being what they are, it was inevitable. Yes, the National Security Agency really is tracking the online sexual activities of "radicals" it doesn’t like in order to discredit them. I predicted it...
Let Obama Play the Iran Hand
When, after the massacres at Newtown and the Washington Navy Yard, Republicans refused to outlaw the AR-15 rifle or require background checks for gun purchasers, we were told the party had committed suicide by defying 90 percent of the nation. When Republicans...


