Several commentators have pointed to the similarities between the pre-World War I era and our own. While every historical analogy is, by definition, inexact, they are right to raise the alarm. In 1914, Europe was divided into two camps: the Entente, consisting of...
When Sen. John McCain went to Syria to meet with Syrian "rebel" commanders and call for sending them US arms, he snuck over the border with Turkey to the town of Azaz – the headquarters of the "Northern Storm Brigade," and the site of a 2012 kidnapping by Syrian...
When John McCain slipped into Syria the other day to meet with Islamist rebels, Sen. Lindsey Graham tweeted "best wishes" to his fellow warmonger and claimed "dibs on his office if he doesn't come back." Leave it to Sen. Graham, who has been agitating along with...
About halfway through President Obama's drone speech, I nearly threw in the towel and changed the channel back to HGTV. After all, why should I sit there and listen to out-and-out lies – and miss the latest episode of "Rehab Addict"? What set me off was the part...
It was the first day of fourth grade, and my Social Studies teacher told us it was time for the pledge of allegiance. All the students stood up: all but me. I don't recall if we'd had the pledge before that: if we did I don't remember it. Whether it was an innovation,...
In order to give our readers some essential background on the lawsuit against the FBI we launched today [5/21/13], we are reprinting this column by Justin Raimondo originally published on August 11, 2011. The phone rang. It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon and it...
A policy has to be judged by its results, and by that standard interventionism is a complete and total failure, as a look at the day's headlines reveals. We've heard several public officials say Al Qaeda has been effectively dismantled, with its top leadership –...
Amidst all the justified outrage over the apparent targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups by the IRS, not to mention the Associated Press phone tapping brouhaha, an important point is being lost: this is nothing new. The Tea Partiers may be shocked – shocked!...
Lt. Col. Jeffrey Kusinski was arrested the other day for groping a woman in a parking lot at one in the morning in Washington, D.C.'s Crystal City. Just another incident involving sexual coercion and an American solider, one of a number of recent incidents that have...
The Heritage Foundation, which has been a bulwark of the War Party since its inception in 1973, has an annual budget of $82.4 million: much of this is spent lobbying on behalf of larger military appropriations and US military intervention worldwide. The American...
