Alaska Dispatch: After sitting through way too many hours of Alaska Board of Game deliberations in recent days, I'm hard pressed to say what disturbs me most about the events that transpired in Anchorage's Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center. Which is most awful, I wonder: that the Board is intensi...

This is a pic of the 9mm semi-auto Beretta pistol that the German press is referring to as an “automatic” weapon, and describing its use in the following terms: The teachers died trying to shield the children from his bullets as he kept his finger on the trigger of his automatic weapon, ...

Wherein nice gloves A showgirl's story: “My heart was very full of art and joy, but I was terribly poor,� Preister said. “All my life people said, ‘Go to Vegas—you’re so talented,’ but I don’t party and I didn’t think it was for me. But Vegas is very different than I expected. Ther...

The Cuse wins its first Big East tournament game in easy fashion - AFTER a near melee in the second half that saw four technical fouls and one flagrant foul called on back to back possessions.  At the time, Syracuse only led by 2 and had trailed early in the 2nd half as Seton Hall came out on fire,...

by Chris Hedges Truthdig (March 08 2009) All measures to thwart the degradation and destruction of our ecosystem will be useless if we do not cut population growth. By 2050, if we continue to reproduce at the current rate, the planet will have between eight billion and ten billion people, according ...

Deseret News | Huntsman trounces Limbaugh in poll “The poll shows a majority of Americans are in line with the governor’s belief that we need solution-oriented leaders,” Huntsman spokeswoman Lisa Roskelley said, carefully avoiding any mention of Limbaugh. No, the poll shows that a ...

Commentary » Blog Archive » Allow Me to Twirl My Evil Moustache (or Payess, If You Know What I Mean) Chas Freeman has withdrawn his name from consideration as the chairman of the National Intelligence Council….The guy goes out with guns blazing–a bit too hot, for my taste. He pins his departur...

Another Not So Smart Power initiative humiliatingly spurned | Cold Fury Oh, but this is rich: Boy Genius makes overtures to “moderateâ€� elements of the Taliban, gets stupid ass spanked — again: Obama’s foreign policy doesn’t seem to be very effective....

The Pathetic Afghan Army & Will Obama Fumble Iraq? Today Iraq is succeeding, but as Generals Petraeus or Odierno might say, the situation remains fragile and reversible. Whereas the Bush-war ended in a new if messy democracy, this year we could see an Obama-war begin; the new President has sent ...

Like Tom Joscelyn, I question Vice President Biden's percentages of Taliban leaders and fighters who are reconcilable and irreconcilable. I have yet to hear an intelligence agency or the military describe the Taliban as such, and in fact most people I've spoken to think just the opposite. And as I'v...