Scrums Along the Potomac

The most recent moment of defining culture for the DC metropolis wasn"€™t the finagling over the nation's debt ceiling or the tug of war over restoring funding to military ...

Brave New World

The first reports in early May of 1960 were that a U.S. weather plane, flying out of Turkey, had gone missing. A silent Moscow knew better. After letting the Americans crawl out ...

The Beltway Lies of the Obamacare War

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies,” said Winston Churchill. What is the truth behind the Beltway lies about ...

President Barack Obama and Rev. Al Sharpton

Leading From Behind Al Sharpton

“The First Black President ... Spoke First as a Black American,” ran the banner headline of Sunday’s Washington Post. But why, when the fires of anger over the ...

Turned by the Spooks

One of the upsides to living in the panopticon is the ability to call powerful people on things they were saying a few years ago. Glen Greenwald has begun to do so, noticing that ...

The Illusion of Difference

In response to a speech by President Obama at Ohio State on May 5 criticizing those who warn about "€œtyranny,"€ there was a lively exchange last night by the Fox All-Stars ...

The Opacity of Transparency

One day after Barack Obama's victory in 2008, the president-elect's campaign team launched its official transition website. The administration "€œwill strengthen whistleblower ...

Senator Chuck Hagel

The Republican Obsession

If last week’s hearing for Chuck Hagel raised questions about his capacity to be secretary of defense, the show trial conducted by his inquisitors on the tribunal raised ...

Guns and the Government

If you have listened to President Obama and Vice President Biden talk about guns in the past month, you have heard them express a decided commitment to use the powers of the ...

Statistical Fallacio

The email challenge came like a squirrel defiantly placing an acorn on its shoulder and daring me to knock it off: “respond to this damn article.” The damn article ...

A Vast New Federal Power

If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street, If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat. If you get too cold, I’ll tax the heat, If you take a walk, I’ll tax ...

Anwar al-Awlaki

An American Letter on the War of Terror

The recent murder of American Anwar al-Awlaki is an outrage. One wishes he were not an American. Were I in charge he never would have been an American. According to old Western ...

Recrossing the Rubicon

A recent report by Scott McConnell, editor-at-large of The American Conservative, that Emperor BarackO, Proconsul Hillary Clinton, and the Praetorian General, David Petraeus, have ...

Washington Murdered Privacy At Home And Abroad

In the Swiss newspaper Zeit-Fragen, Professor Dr. Eberhard Hamer from Germany asks, “How Sovereign is Europe?” He examines the issue and concludes that Europe has ...

America’s First Suicide Bomber

Joseph Stack, frustrated American, flew his airplane into an Austin, Texas, office building. He was one of the 79 percent of Americans who have given up on “their” ...

Grounds For Hope and Despair

My Feb. 16 column, “A Country of Serfs Ruled By Oligarchs,” received confirmation from high places on the very day it appeared. Popular Indiana Democratic U.S. Senator ...


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