Single Issue Anyone?

With the possible spoiler of Mike Huckabee, it's clear that John McCain is set to be the candidate the Democrats need to beat in November. The irony of the ongoing battle between Hillary and Obama is that, policy-wise, they just aren't that different. There were some real differences between the…

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If the cold war presidents had acted like George W. Bush …

Fred Kaplan's has written a new book, Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power. He argues that George W. Bush's failures stem from two great misconceptions: A) that the world changed after Sept. 11, when it didn't, and B) that the United States emerged from the Cold…

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Teens stand up to military recruiters

Congratulations to these kids.   They're absolutely justified.  The military has no right to coerce high school students into taking tests that make it easier to recruit the students. The test the kids resisted, the ASVAB is a covert recruiting tool.  If kids want to go to Iraq, let them go to…

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Who is that screwing around with armed nuclear weapons?

Perhaps the rule should be that countries that don't show the utmost care for nuclear weapons shouldn't be allowed to have any.  Oops, that's us, according to the Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Air Force said Friday it has punished 70 airmen involved in the accidental, cross-country flight of…

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Another retired U.S. General mouths off . . .

. . . and says the obvious, I should add.  Last week, it was retired General Sanchez, who blasted the Bush Administration, calling it "incompetent" in the way it has run the Iraq occupation. This week, it's Retired General John Abizaid, former CENTCOM Commander, who spoke about Iraq: During a…

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