by Peter Suderman. The politics of panic. CNN’s Jim Acosta captured the prevailing mood in the corridors of political power today when he asked President Obama about America’s willingness to step up attacks on ISIS following the terrorist attacks in Paris last Friday. “I think a lot of Americans have this frustration that they see that the United ... MORE
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Calls For Boots On The Ground, Curbing Immigration And More Surveillance Powers Coming In Wake Of Paris Attacks
by Peter Suderman. The politics of panic. CNN’s Jim Acosta captured the prevailing mood in the corridors of political power today when he asked President Obama about America’s willingness to step up attacks on ISIS following the terrorist attacks in Paris last Friday. “I think a lot of Americans have this frustration that they see that the United ... MOREMarcus E. Howard: The Pentagon Has Squandered Millions Paying Pro Sports Teams To Honor Soldiers At Games
It's like paying a whore to say, "I love you." The Pentagon and National Guard paid professional sports teams to publicly honor soldiers at sporting events, according to a Senate oversight report released Wednesday that labeled the practice “inappropriate and frivolous.” Since the end of 2011, the military has spent $6.8 million on sports ... MORESheldon Richman: Representative Government Is A Fiction
If we really live under a representative government, how can a president take the country to war in Syria without even a show vote in Congress? "The success of government...," the late historian Edmund Morgan wrote,
"requires the acceptance of fictions, requires the willing suspension
of disbelief, requires us to believe that the emperor ... MOREHow Climate Change Activism Harms Third World Countries
by Shikha Dalmia. To avert a tragedy, they'll cause one. You wouldn't know it from the happy spin emanating from the Oval Office, but a Third World revolt in Bonn, Germany, this week almost derailed the Paris climate change negotiations in November. Although peace has been restored for now, it only happened by papering over this ... MOREJohn W Whitehead: Fear Of The Walking Dead
The American police state takes aim. The zombies are back. They are hungry. And they are lurking around every corner. The zombie narrative, popularized by the hit television series The Walking Dead,
in which a small group of Americans attempt to survive in a
zombie-ridden, post-apocalyptic world where they’re not only fighting
off ... MOREGlenn Greenwald: CNN And The NYT Are Deliberately Obscuring Who Perpetrated The Afghan Hospital Attack
George W. Bush would have no such luck. Much of the world spent the last 48 hours expressing revulsion at the
U.S. airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. It was quite clear
early on that the perpetrator of the attack was the U.S., and many
media outlets and other organizations around the world have been stating
this without ... MOREWalter E Williams: Unnecessary Loss Of Life
Politically correct rules of engagement. War is nasty, brutal and costly. In our latest wars, many of the casualties suffered by American troops are a direct result of their having to obey rules of engagement created by politicians who have never set foot on — or even seen — a battlefield. Today's battlefield commanders must be alert to the ... MOREJacob Sullum: Rand Paul And 10 Heedless Hawks
A desperately needed alternative to mindless militarism. At a Q&A session in Dallas a year ago, Rand Paul expressed skepticism about whether the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) posed "a threat to our national security." Hours later at another event in Dallas, the Kentucky senator said that if he were president he "would lay out the ... MOREAmerica Has Way Too Many Overseas Military Bases
There are 800 bases in foreign countries. With the U.S. military having withdrawn many of its forces from Iraq and Afghanistan, most Americans would be forgiven for being unaware that hundreds of U.S. bases and hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops still encircle the globe. Although few know it, the United States garrisons the planet ... MOREJohn Nichols: Rand Paul Offered Reasonable Alternatives On Foreign Policy, Drug Reform, And Mass Incarceration
Kentucky senator not parroting establishment line. Donald Trump does not like Rand Paul. In the weirdest non sequitur of a often-incoherent second Republican presidential debate, the billionaire front-runner for the party nomination declared, "Rand Paul shouldn't even be on this stage. He's number 11. He's got 1 percent in the polls. ... MOREObama Chooses Openly Gay Man To Lead The Army
by Greg Jaffe. Political correctness has covered a lot of ground in 4 years. President Obama, in a historic first for the Pentagon, has chosen to
nominate Eric Fanning to lead the Army, a move that would make him the
first openly gay civilian secretary of one of the military services. Fanning,
47, has been a specialist on national security issues for more ... MORE50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked
Government lies about success against ISIS. It’s being called a ‘revolt’ by intelligence pros who are paid to give their honest assessment of the ISIS war—but are instead seeing their reports turned into happy talk. More than 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military’s Central Command have formally complained that their reports ... MOREJohn Stossel: Market Magic
If people need it, the market does it. People have long lists of things they think the market can't possibly do — from building subways to fighting wars. Sometimes, the market does them anyway. War, for example. Even conservatives, who often praise markets, assume that only government can fight terrorists. Tell that to Matthew VanDyke. ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: What If Hillary Clinton Doesn't Care?
Contempt for the American people. What if former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been pulling the wool over our eyes for years? What if, while she was secretary of state, she ran two secret wars, one in Libya and one in Syria? What if there already were wars in each of those countries, so she used those wars as covers for her own? ... MOREThomas Sowell: Who Lost Iraq?
It is like a community organizer tried to be general. After the pro-Western government of China was forced to flee to the island of Taiwan in 1949, when the Communists took over mainland China, bitter recriminations in Washington led to the question: "Who lost China?" China was, of course, never ours to lose, though it might be legitimate ... MORE
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