Pen and Sword

Also at Kos On the eve of the mid-term election, it's important to take a look at the nature of the people who brought American to its p...

The shape of the Next World Order is starting to gel. Hopefully, America still has a chance to resconfigure the mold before the blob harden...

I've often said that if the dime store field marshals in charge of our woebegone war in Iraq had put the same effort into winning it tha...

(The second of a two part series. Part I covered impeachments, the War Powers Resolution of 1973 and the Patriot Act. Part II addresses FI...

(The second of a two part series. Part I covered impeachments, the War Powers Resolution of 1973 and the Patriot Act. Part II addresses FI...

If the Democrats manage to win one or both houses of Congress come November, I hope they don't blow the victory by getting bogged down i...

Also posted at Kos . Stop by and recommend if you like. I'm not yet convinced that a war with Iran or Korea is inevitable, but I don...

If the people running our woebegone war in Iraq were as good at running the war as they are at spinning it, they wouldn't have to spin i...

It's embarrassing to realize how long the neoconservatives have been able to double talk their way around their falsehoods and fumbles i...

“No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by th...