Two policemen were killed and a woman was wounded in a bombing in Tal Afar. In Mosul, gunmen killed a lawyer and wounded his companion. Gunmen killed a university dean in Falluja. A bomb in Hawija wounded a Sahwa leader and three bodyguards. In Baquba, gunmen wounded...
Baghdad Mosque Bombed As Attacks Leave 26 Killed
Liberty in the Age of Terrorism
The Boston Marathon bombing, horrific in and of itself, is made far worse by our response to it. For one thing, hate is on the march. Listen here to the conversation between a Washington, D.C. cabbie – a Muslim from Somalia – and his crazed passenger, who rants that...
Twelve Iraqis Killed in Fresh Attacks
More Holes in the Fourth Amendment
Here they go again. The Obama administration has asked its allies in Congress to introduce legislation that would permit the feds to continue their march through the Fourth Amendment when it comes to obtaining private information about all of us. The Fourth Amendment,...
Kristol Clear
It has been noted ironically by Justin Raimondo at antiwar and also by Scott McConnell over at The American Conservative how the neoconservative dominated American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus, which sees Chechens and other Central Asian Muslim militants as...
Attacks Target Central Iraq: 28 Killed, 75 Wounded
Chemical Weapons Hypocrisy: WMD for We But Not For Thee
The French, British and Israeli governments have all accused Syria’s regime of using chemical weapons in its ongoing struggle with foreign-backed rebels. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon is urging Assad to allow UN inspectors into the country to verify or disprove the...
The Profligate Nuclear Pentagon
American taxpayers don’t get their money’s worth from their ever-growing annual investment in the Pentagon. It’s a bottomless pit that makes a hydrofracked well look like a pothole. Most taxpayers would be happy to spend considerably less. The massive size, baroque...
Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the Penumbra of Terror
The semi-official story coming out of Washington, and the Western media, is that the Tsarnaev brothers were "self-radicalized" loners, "losers," as their uncle Ruslan put it, unconnected to any larger organization or terrorist network. The poor babies were so...


