Jonathan Schanzer is the VP for Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the folks who think the Iraq War was so nice, they'd like to do it twice (just swap that "q" for an "n"). He's got a new piece in Foreign Policy, which is often most useful as a window into what … Continue reading With us or against us, ad absurdum

Former Republican Congressman Steve LaTourette arrives at the site of a battle that happened years ago and declares that he's worried about the outcome (via): Over the last few years we have seen the rise of a new grifter—the political grifter. And the most important battle being waged today isn’t the one about which party … Continue reading Talk about closing the barn door after the horse is already out

The House Intelligence Committee, with its Republican majority, declassified its Benghazi findings on Thursday. What nefarious misdeeds did they find that the Obama Administration committed? Among the Intelligence Committee's findings, according to Thompson: -- Intelligence agencies were "warned about an increased threat environment, but did not have specific tactical warning of an attack before it … Continue reading BREAKING: Benghazi still isn’t a scandal

Kaili Joy Gray at Wonkette celebrates disgraced racist Pat Buchanan's return to MSNBC: But MSNBC has fallen off the wagon and gone on a major bender, because Pat is back to pimp his newest book, Why I’d Still Get On My Knees And Fellate My Hero Richard Nixon If I Could, and the “Morning Joe” … Continue reading From the “comebacks that don’t make any sense” file

Friday in the Daily Beast:Right now Russia is moving troops, armor, and advanced antiaircraft missiles toward the border with Ukraine. In the last 48 hours, dozens of videos have been uploaded to social-media sites that show Russian armor very close to the border, many of them confirmed to be within mere kilometers of Ukraine.On Thursday, … Continue reading Something isn’t adding up in Ukraine

Here's one argument against supplying John McCain's best good friends with advanced weapons, like MANPADS, that could obviously be repurposed against Western targets by an extremist/terrorist group: we can't keep track of our shit. Specifically, we can't keep track of the almost 750,000 small arms we've sent to Afghanistan since 2004, to the tune of … Continue reading So about arming the Syrian rebels…

FULL DISCLOSURE: I'm not a vegetarian, though my wife and I are trying to eat less meat both for health reasons and because of the environmental impact. But vegetarians who eat fish for ethical reasons never made sense to me. Eating that way for health reasons makes sense, though we've toxified the ocean food chain … Continue reading Fish have feelings

If there is a line, Israel has crossed it. For the sixth time since fighting in Gaza began, the IDF has dropped ordinance on a UNRWA school where thousands of displaced Palestinian civilians had sought shelter. Today's attack killed at least 10 people, and Sunday's total of 71 Palestinians killed brought the Operation Protective Edge's … Continue reading The line between “appalling” and “crime against humanity”

The Islamic State and its allies have defeated the Kurdish peshmerga and taken control of the Mosul Dam, north of Mosul itself on the Tigris River, as well as Sinjar, a town to the west of Mosul that is home to many of Iraq's Yazidi people. They now also control the Batma and Ain Zalah … Continue reading Another IS offensive leads to another humanitarian crisis

Do you ever get mad that your furniture doesn't offer a lot of good places to stash your many firearms? Well, "concealment furniture" is what you need, and New Jersey Concealment Furniture will make it for you: The company is called New Jersey Concealment Furniture, and it sells an array of products, including coat racks, … Continue reading The ultimate marriage of form and function