Written by Bashmilah at Huffington Post is this harrowing account of our war "on terror" or as has become obvious, our war "of terror:" "From October 2003 until May 2005, I was illegally detained by the U.S. government and held in CIA-run "black sites" with no contact with the outside world. On May ...

Can't this man just go away? Has he not done enough damage with his terra=politics? And let's not forget that he and his boss were in charge on 9/11 and it is they who have already FAILED to protect us:... (read the rest)...

Here is another guest editorial from OpEdNews.com. This one will make you think hard. OpEdNews Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Moral-Dead-Zone-by-Bob-Koehler-090116-455.html January 16, 2009 The Moral Dead Zone By Bob Koehler “Mr. Ban said too many people had died and ther...

John Bolton, who likes to fashion himself an expert on Middle East affairs, illustrated quite the opposite during his tenure as US Ambassador to the United Nations. Despite having the rest of the world laughing at us, and despite being wrong on every thing he ever said with regard to the Middle East...

He must be kidding! This is what the distinguished economist Martin Feldstein writes: The Department of Defense is preparing budget cuts in response to the decline in national income. The DOD budgeteers and their counterparts in the White House Office of Management and Budget apparently reason that ...

What to remember on thanksgiving......

What is it with the MSM's constant need to publish the opinions of people who have no credibility, have no ability to tell the truth, and worse, whose career is nothing short of criminal? Karl Rove at WSJ, Oliver North in all the right-wing media, and so forth. The latest of this line-up is former S...

by Jeff Huber Last spring my dog Shady and I were walking across the bridge over Pleasure House Creek when I heard a disturbance in the water. I looked down and saw a Great Blue Heron breaking the water's surface. The heron flicked the water from its wings, flapped them, and went flying down the cre...

I'd rather see this off my taxes then a gas tax holiday. $23 billion has been lost, stolen, or not properly accounted for in Iraq, according to a BBC News investigation. BBC claims that private contractors have exploited the conflict and reconstruction in a potentially criminal manner. There are 70 ...

by Jeff Huber In apparent response to Defense Secretary Robert Gates's complaint that the Air Force isn't providing Central Command with enough unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the Navy is working on a developmental version of the discontinued Joint Unmanned Combat Air System (J-UCAS) that it's call...