National Intelligence Estimate

Ouch.

A notable new book in the seemingly endless stream of socio-political-foreign-policy fair is Susan Faludi’s “The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America”. She offers up a unique (some calling feminist) perspective which casts the roles of gender and myth into our current national climate of fear and paranoia.
From Truthdig:
“The enemy that […]

Getting called out.
Frank Rich:
… Our moral trajectory over the Bush years could not be better dramatized than it was by a reunion of an elite group of two dozen World War II veterans in Washington this month. They were participants in a top-secret operation to interrogate some 4,000 Nazi […]

Many many moons ago, perhaps even a whole Earth rotation, I brought up this bizarre but real image found on Google Maps. I went out on a limb and said I found it more than a bit off putting. Well open up to the CALIFORNIA section of the LA Times today and turns […]

“Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.”
-Milton Friedman
Every now and then, we have the honor of reading a book, or watching a live event, which turns the normal, conventional-wisdom thoughts of our elites on it’s head.
Last week we had the honor to see how a hard-hitting ad by Moveon.org would shake […]

With this disturbing quote “it has been very peaceful here (for 6 years) since we were attacked” rattling around in my brain today, I’d thought post an article in came across a couple of weeks back.
The headline says it all:
U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States […]

six years and counting

This video was posted to the net a couple day ago and has been spreading rapidly. Rightly so…

In this interview from April 15th, 1994, Dick Cheney reveals the reasons why invading Baghdad and toppling Saddam Hussein wouldn’t be a great idea. He also stipulates that “not very many” American soldiers’ lives were worth losing to […]

When I watched some of the coverage of the latest terror plot, this time in London, I couldn’t help think to myself, “Yeah…okay…and what?”
So far we know that there were two cars found in London that had explosive material in them, but most likely weren’t configured correctly to explode. One person supposedly connected to […]