There’s a quote from an unattributed USAF Major at Ben Tre (detailed in personal detail here) describing the logic of destroying an entire village while attempting to rout a deeply embedded Vietcong: “[It] became necessary to destroy the town to save it[.]“ I don’t disagree w...

On the evening of Monday, January 19th, the publisher David Bradley , stood in the opulent living room of his Georgian mansion off of Embassy Row in Washington D.C., across the road from the Naval Observatory, and spoke of existential angst. "All of us have those middle of the night sentiments ...

Over the past eight years, Dick Cheney has spent most of his vice presidency holed-up in some undisclosed location, dreaming up new ways to trash the Constitution (except for an occasional hunting trip), but in the past month he's been a big part of the Bush/Cheney Legacy Tour, granting interviews r...

Last fall, as network executives, members of Congress and other hotshots gathered beneath a massive tent at Washington's Decatur House to celebrate the 10th anniversary of "Hardball," Chris Matthews began to address the crowd....