McCain: 'I predicted what was going to happen in Iraq'
When the forces of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) overran Mosul and Tikrit two months ago, I laid out “10 Lessons from Bush’s Fiasco in Iraq.” But like Spinal Tap, I should have gone to 11....
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Back in 2011, after the TEA Party wave handed Republicans control of the US House of Representatives, Michael Tomasky of The Guardian prophetically wrote :Having taken control of the House of...
View ArticleBig Rail Cites Bin Laden, Al Qaeda to Fight Oil-by-Rail Route Transparency
Co-Written with Justin Mikulka; Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogWhile many states around the U.S. have released information to the public about the frequency and routes of trains carrying oil obtained from...
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RUN! HIDE! Commies Are Coming! BinLaden is Coming! ISIS is Coming! Mushroom...
What "Terrorist" group will USA create next? We all know the Executive Branch & Legislative Branch have been creating "terrorists" for a long time. USA created Bin Laden to fight the Russians...
View ArticleWas 9/11 a turning point for America?
I had left my job teaching medical school and was now Professor Emeritus. I decided to try teaching algebra in high school and had a job in Gloucester Virginia. That morning the Tee Vee came on and...
View ArticleI Remember When the Media Refused to Air the Bin Laden Videos
As the terrorist group ISIS releases a third video purporting to show the beheading of a British aid worker, I have no doubt that the media will be continuously replaying the jolting image of the ISIS...
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Mitch McConnell to Vote "YES" Arm Syrian Rebels who helped al-Qaeda kill US...
Mitch McConnell is up for re-election in a few weeks. Because elections are so much more important to politicians than National Security, Congress has no time to debate the merits of funding Saudi...
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Khorasan Head Thought to be Killed in Air Strike
Whether or not American military intervention in Syria is ill-advised can and should be debated, but this is a president who has an impressive record of finding and neutralizing bad guys with violent...
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Judge Jeanine Is Tired Of Charades
Judge Jeanine Pirro is a very smart, well-educated lady who has recently lost her marbles. But, thanks to the safety net provided by wingnut welfare -- Fox News and assorted other cable producers of...
View ArticleHappy Halloween from the GOP
Republicans have adopted a Halloween-themed campaign strategy that they hope will incite voters to run screaming from Democrats.The GOP message: Americans should be very, very afraid because the...
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The Mukasey Rule: Lame-duck Obama should get the attorney general he wants
Next week, Republicans may recapture control of the U.S. Senate. And to be sure, they’ve made no secret of their plans to derail the final two years of Barack Obama’s presidency. Would-be Senate...
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Fox News Crocumentary On Alleged Bin Laden Shooter May Be Bogus, Unlawful,...
Last week, amid great fanfare, Fox News announced that they would be airing a special presentation that features a Navy SEAL who claims to have fired the shot that killed Osama Bin Laden. The press...
View ArticleLies about President Obama
President Obama in his sixth year as president has faced a barrage of challenges and crises that no president before him has faced. The anti-Obama crusade that includes propaganda, conspiracy theories,...
View ArticleCNN Freudian Slip?
Another day, another fine effort by our accurate and impartial corporate media....
View ArticleCartoon: Cheney’s torture anthem
Even though Dick Cheney isn’t the only one responsible for the stain of torture on the United States, he’s the most, shall we say, colorful? If you think the awfulness of Bush-era torture is behind us,...
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Outsourcing Torture
The U.S. Senate report on torture tells a tale of contracting out run-a-muck. Two psychologists were awarded a no-bid contract to design the Central Intelligence Agency’s torture program set up after...
View ArticleThe War in Afghanistan Officially Ended Today
From Al Jazeera:The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan formally ended its combat mission on Sunday, more than 13 years after an international alliance ousted the Taliban government for sheltering the...
View ArticleReligious Extremism
'Why They Hate Us'Decades of purging the effects of the Deep South Bible Belt, i.e. Southern Baptist and Methodist persuasions, a lengthy obsession with various renditions of indigenous animism,...
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Obama should declassify section of September 11 report alleging high-level...
Bronze memorial to Sept. 11 firefighters. The news published Tuesday that convicted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui testified last October that members of the Saudi government and royalty were involved in...
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So what if ISIL is a 'Muslim' terror group? Obama's still right not to use...
President Obama is trying to defeat ISIL and Republicans are trying to defeat President Obama. Are ISIL and al Qaida and terrorist groups like them "Muslim?" In the simplest terms, of course they are,...
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