Israel’s Crumbling Pillar of ‘Defense’

The big news this Thanksgiving holiday is the announcement of the Gaza ceasefire. Will it last beyond the time you're eating desert and trying to recover from a massive Tryptophane overdose? Don't be so sure…. The reason for this uncertainty is because Hamas comes out...

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Susan Rice Is Bad News

The largely partisan debate over what really happened in Benghazi has centered around the public pronouncements of UN Ambassador Susan Rice, whose comments on the Sunday talk show circuit attributed the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others to a riot...

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Why Gaza?

The Israeli assault on Gaza was triggered Nov. 8 when the IDF crossed the border and murdered Ahmed Younis Khader Abu Daqqa, a 13-year-old boy playing football in his front yard: the official explanation for this action was an alleged weapons cache, supposedly stored...

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Why Paula Broadwell Sent Those Emails

When it comes to grandstanding, few politicians can outdo Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham. A few hours before the President's first press conference since the election, this duo had one of their own, demanding a "Water-gate"-like special...

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Palace Revolution

The political class is aghast at the spectacle of one after another of their holy icons falling: first it was David Petraeus, outed by a lone FBI agent in Tampa who took the discovery of his affair with Paula Broadwell to the House Republican leadership and...

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A Covert Affair:
Petraeus Caught in the Honeypot?

The outing of Gen. David Petraeus as an adulterer, and his subsequent resignation as CIA Director, was carried out by an unknown FBI “whistleblower” who leaked the facts of the FBI investigation into the General’s private life to Rep. Eric Cantor. The New York Times...

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Next Stop: Syria

A new study says the British have invaded nine out of ten countries on earth: during the course of their long history of conquest, only 22 nations escaped Britannia's imperial wrath. And it looks like they're at it again, with British Prime Minister David Cameron...

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Election 2012: Ron Paul’s Revenge!

What’s particularly nervy — galling, really — about the idea that the US ought to be spreading our democratic system across the globe is the fact that we don’t have anything close to democracy in this country. Nor do we have what the Founders intended to create: a...

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The Mystery Behind the Benghazi Attack

A reporter found the evidence of our folly in the ruins of the American consulate in Benghazi, scattered on the floor where it had been overlooked by looters. Amid the rubble and ashes were documents left there since the attack — clearly State Department...

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Romney’s Neocons

Dov Zakheim, Mitt Romney's top foreign policy advisor, wants us to know the neocons aren't in charge of RomneyWorld: "One of the favorite canards that Obama activists and surrogates hurl at Mitt Romney is that he is surrounded by a group of wild-eyed George W. Bush...

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