Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:52:31 am
This is the moron whose ex-wife is suing him for more than $100,000 in unpaid child support, now attacking a veteran who lost both her legs in Iraq: Rep. Joe Walsh Blasts Double Amputee's Military Service, Says She's Not a 'True Hero'. YouTube Video Though he never joined the military himself, ...

Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:25:22 pm
Where does GOP presumptive nominee Mitt Romney stand on foreign policy? That's a question that even his advisers are asking. He went and said that we shouldn't negotiate with the Taliban and that we should defeat the Taliban, even as many of his advisers and supporters are looking at a ...

Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 2:52:44 pm
YouTube Video A truly horrifying story from California: California Muslim Mother Beaten to Death, Left With Note Saying 'Go Back to Your Country'. I'm sure some will disagree with me, but I have no doubt that the climate of deranged xenophobia and anti-Muslim hatred built and fed by people like Newt Gingrich, ...

Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:32:03 am
Andrew Breitbart crony and CNN commentator Dana Loesch defends herself against criticism of her comments supporting desecrating corpses by spewing insults at her critics and calling it "Correcting the Progressive Spin on My Defense of the Marines." Because in Loesch's twisted mind, only a "progressive" could possibly be appalled at US ...

Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 5:09:37 pm
We have a terrorism arrest tonight, another case in which the suspect was under surveillance the whole time: Bloomberg announces arrest of terror suspect. New York (CNN) -- Authorities have arrested a man they claim was plotting to detonate pipe bombs, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday night. The Manhattan ...

Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:52:22 am
Here's a good piece by Michelle Goldberg on the relentless attempt by the right wing hate machine to smear Occupy Wall Street as "antisemitic:" Occupy Wall Street Isn't Anti-Semitic, But It's Too Leaderless. One of the curses of left-wing politics is the perennial presence of International ANSWER, a front group ...

Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 4:38:13 pm
In the October 14th episode of his radio show, Rush Limbaugh defended the Ugandan terrorist group calling itself the Lord's Resistance Army, portraying the LRA as Christians targeted by President Obama for being Christian, and defending the agitprop of the LRA by reading it as gospel. Only at the very last ...

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Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:09:41 am
In June 2007, "counter-jihad" blogger Pamela Geller posted the following Email from Norway, from a reader who sounds a lot like the Oslo terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik. This is what the post looks like today: I am running an email I received from an Atlas reader in Norway. It is devastating ...

Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 5:57:51 pm
Recommended tonight: Carl Bernstein sums up what we know so far about the Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal. The hacking scandal currently shaking Rupert Murdoch’s empire will surprise only those who have willfully blinded themselves to that empire’s pernicious influence on journalism in the English-speaking world. Too many of us ...

Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:08:09 am
For more information on the dustup among Jon Stewart, Fox News, and Politifact, here's Politifact's original piece on Stewart's claim that Fox News viewers are more misinformed than viewers of other networks: PolitiFact | Jon Stewart says those who watch Fox News are the 'most consistently misinformed media viewers'. When many ...

Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:59:15 pm
Politifact notes that by hunting down and killing Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, President Obama was fulfilling one of his controversial campaign promises: The Obameter: We will kill bin Laden - Promise kept. During the 2008 campaign, then candidate Barack Obama pledged several times that he would act to capture ...

Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:27:20 pm
A New York Daily News anti-Obama article is spreading rapidly across the right wing blog echo chamber: Bush feels Obama ignoring ex-president's role in Osama Bin Laden strike for 'victory lap': source. The article by Thomas DeFrank quotes an unnamed "highly placed source" who says President Bush feels Obama is ...

Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:48:38 pm
Christopher Hitchens writes today that the killing of Osama bin Laden won't mean very much if the United States continues doing business as usual with Pakistan: Osama Bin Laden's legacy: It will depend in part on what Obama does next. There are several pleasant little towns like Abbottabad in Pakistan, ...

Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:24:29 pm
In a new column for Slate, Christopher Hitchens focuses on Hamid Karzai's incitement of violence against foreigners. As someone who advances the quaint belief that the removal of two of the worst regimes in the region—the Taliban and the Iraqi Baath Party—did not have nothing to do with the subsequent ...

Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:37:39 am
Here's the transcript of President Obama's speech on Libya, announcing that NATO will be taking over operations, and carefully making the case for humanitarian intervention: Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on Libya.

Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:11:36 pm
Think Progress's George Zornick catches Newt Gingrich executing a stunning reverse double backflip maneuver: Gingrich Criticized Obama For Not Intervening In Libya, But Now Criticizes Him For Intervening In Libya. Gingrich on March 7: Exercise a no-fly zone this evening. ... We don’t need to have the United Nations. All we ...

Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 1:28:55 pm
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday in a speech at West Point that getting into any more wars like Iraq or Afghanistan would be crazy. WEST POINT, N.Y. — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates bluntly told an audience of West Point cadets on Friday that it would be unwise for ...

Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:31:44 am
The Iraqi defector who convinced American and British intelligence services that Iraq had a secret biological weapons program with mobile laboratories now admits he made it all up. Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed Curveball by German and American intelligence officials who dealt with his claims, has told the Guardian that ...

Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 10:17:03 am
Disgraced former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who played a huge role in promoting fictions about Iraq's WMD capabilities, has landed at one of the looniest right wing magazines in America: Newsmax. Miller will be sharing the pages of Newsmax with such luminaries of the right wing as Pamela "Shrieking ...

Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:48:09 pm
As always, Hitchens says it well: Attempts to prosecute Assange will, I predict, be either too little or too late, or both, or worse. There is a good reason the Espionage Act of 1917 has such a rusty and unused sound to it. It was a panic measure passed during ...

Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:52:45 am
British intelligence officials said yesterday that there was no evidence to support George Bush's claim that the use of waterboarding had helped to foil terrorist plots. David Davis, the Conservative former shadow home secretary, said: "For [Bush] to demonstrate the use of torture saved British lives he has to demonstrate ...

Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:07:11 pm
I posted this as a comment in our earlier thread about George W. Bush's acknowledgment that he approved waterboarding for terror suspects after 9/11, but refused to consider it "torture." I thought it might be of interest to our general audience, as a look at why my opinions have changed ...

Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:34:26 am
The decision by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to release hundreds of thousands of classified Iraq War documents has led to a series of high level resignations at Wikileaks, by staffers who believe the documents have not been properly redacted to remove the names of collaborators and informers: Unpublished Iraq War ...

Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:59:37 pm
President Obama's speech on the drawdown of US troops in Iraq is about to start; Sarah Palin started attacking it before it began, with a hilariously illiterate reference to George Orwell: Sarah Palin. When asked, "Which book by George Orwell is your favorite?" Palin replied, "All of them!" Ahem. Anyway, here's live ...