Dog Days
In these, the dog days of summer, normal people everywhere are on vacation. They go to a resort: swimming, boating, family photos on the beach – these are the woof and warp of American life. Standing outside – and, in their estimation, above – that...
Dirty Tricks
The smear campaign targeting Julian Assange and WikiLeaks isn't very subtle, nor is it very effective. First the Pentagon refuses Assange's request to vet the tens of thousands of secret files WikiLeaks put online, expunging material that might cost American or Afghan...
All Lies, All the Time
Cordoba House: The Acid Test
It's hard to believe that a national campaign led by lunatics has taken off with such momentum, but then again, it looks like we're still living in Bizarro World, where the values we upheld before 9/11 have been hideously inverted. So what else can we expect? The...
The Hammer and the Scalpel
A recent New York Times report details the secret war now being waged by the Obama administration across the globe, from Africa to Central Asia – and no doubt places we don't yet know about. This is nothing new: the Bush regime started this reign of lawlessness,...
Folly, Left and Right
Attacked by left, smeared by the right – I must be doing something right. That, at least, is what I'm led to believe by the two most recent polemics directed at your humble servant. The first, from the pages of the Daily Caller – the right-wing answer to the...
Smearing Bradley Manning
The Information War
It's almost funny – if your sense of humor runs to the dark side – to watch the Washington power elite go bonkers over the WikiLeaks revelations. We have Pentagon officials stamping their feet and demanding that WikiLeaks “return” the...
