Pen and Sword

Late last week and through the weekend we heard more of the same self contradicting war rhetoric from the administration, the Pentagon, and ...

As little as a year ago, I might have considered this futuristic fantasy by Chelicera a total piece of paranoid bunk. Now, I think it'...

An NYT story today features a book by former Army chaplain James Yee. Yee, you may recall, was the Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay who w...

I just caught General Abizaid, head of Central Command, on Russert and Schieffer. I didn't hear anything that changed my opinion that t...

...from Lucy Daglish on MSNBC: "I'm no expert on ethics. I'm a lawyer."

Over at Knits End , the always witty and charming Kerstin decries how awful she looks in her latest creation. I suspect that the vast majori...

If you thought Mike Brown was a buffoon, how do you like the Abbott and Costello routines Donald Rumsfeld and the Not Ready for Wartime Play...

Do you think Bill Bennett was trying to draw the heat away from Tom Delay? And if he was, who do you reckon came up with the idea?

Regarding global military spending, I recommend you take a look at the CIA World Fact Book page on the subject. The U.S is number one, of ...

"'Berto, how 'bout you write me up one of them things… What do you call 'em?" "A memorandum, Mister President?...