The storm now breaking over Washington surrounding Donald Trump, Jr.’s email communications with a British publicist may be much ado about a set-up.Just how, exactly, did the anonymous sources cited by the New York Times come to possess Donald Trump, Jr.’s emails? It...
Trump Nixes Elliott Abrams for State Dept. Job
Despite a media campaign trying to offload neoconservative Elliott Abrams onto the Trump administration, and considerable pressure from within the cabinet to appoint him Deputy Secretary of State, President Trump has decided against including the controversial...
Rand Paul Opposes Iran Deal
Rand Paul Opposes Iran Deal | — and consigns his campaign to oblivion
Murdered French Cartoonist Seems To Predict Attack
In an eerie coincidence, the French cartoonist known as Charb – real name, Stephane Charbonnier – seemed to predict the attack in which he was murdered. His last cartoon depicted a figure representing a jihadist in which the headline says: "Still no attack in...
House GOP Leader Defeated by Anti-NSA Challenger
In a development that is going to shake the Republican Establishment to its foundations, Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor has been defeated: with a little more than 60 percent of the vote in, David A. Brat, a professor of economics and a trenchant critic...
Stop the NSA – Call the Congress Now!
Edward Snowden’s sacrifice was not in vain – because many thousands in the United States are rising to take up the battle he started. And they mean to win.At the head of the libertarian army that’s storming the gates of the Leviathan: Rep. Justin Amash (R-Michigan), a...
Naftali Bennett: The David Duke of Israel
Naftali Bennett is the rising star of Israeli politics, and his party, Jewish Home, is projected to be the third largest in Israel: he is also an upfront racist who has made the presence of Africans in the country a major campaign issue, calling for their immediate...
General Norman Schwarzkopf, RIP
Editorial note: This piece was first published on January 29, 2003, a few months before the US invaded Iraq. The original title was “Beware the Ides of March: Ignore the First Chickenhawk's ‘State of the Union’ – listen, instead, to General Schwarzkopf.” It is the...