Never forget:HA HA! That's a funny clip, and we all had a good laugh over it. But what's not funny is that a major American newspaper still pays former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen for his, let's say, "thoughts":When former President George W. Bush makes a rare visit to Washington today, he won’t criticize … Continue reading This must be what Michele Bachmann meant by “Choot’s Paw”

Dear Scotland,Rumor is you're about to vote for independence from Great Britain. That's great! I have to admit, I don't have much of an opinion on this issue; it's not that I don't appreciate Scotland or anything, but the British Isles just aren't really my area, you know. Anyway, reading this James Fallows piece yesterday … Continue reading Please, Scotland, help me help you

I guess Senator Inhofe comes down on the "Putin is Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot times 1000" side of The Great Republican Putin Debate, not the "man I wish Putin was president of America" side. Well, I guess it's possible that Inhofe would agree with the "Putin is the most evil man who ever lived … Continue reading Jim Inhofe will save us from Commie Russian Nukes with more Free American Nukes

This is just inexcusable:Al Jazeera removed a story published on Thursday that said the videos of ISIS beheading American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff were "unconvincing," according to Al Arabiya.Al Arabiya is a rival to Al Jazeera in the Arab news network market and is owned by a Saudi billionaire with marriage ties to … Continue reading Al Jazeera really steps in it

For anybody who's been paying attention, it didn't exactly take the smart folks at The Upshot (The New York Times' data blog) to reveal that John McCain has been the most frequently booked Sunday talk show guest since Barack Obama took office, or that number 2 (no, I don't mean it that way) on the … Continue reading The Sunday shows’ fascination with John McCain

Ayman al-Zawahiri released a video earlier this week in which he announced the creation of an "official" Al-Qaeda branch in India, called Jamaʿat Qaedat al-Jihad fi Shibh al-Qarrah al-Hindiyah or, in English, Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS). Zawahiri claimed that the announcement was the culmination of a "two year" process of organizing smaller jihadi … Continue reading Trying to make a splash in the terror market, Al-Qaeda heads east

In my latest piece at LobeLog, I look at the arrest (on what are almost certainly bogus charges) late last week of human rights activist Maryam al-Khawaja in Bahrain, and what it says about a monarchy that keeps promising to stop mistreating its people but that, in reality, is only trying to get better at … Continue reading Bahrain and Qatar test America’s commitment to human rights; America fails test

The New York Times has a remarkable video feature up today, please go and at least read the accompanying story even if you don't/can't watch the video (which includes some very graphic footage). It's the story of Ali Hussein Kadhim, a Shiʿa and former Iraqi soldier who amazingly survived an IS massacre in Tikrit in … Continue reading Putting Iraq back together again is going to be quite a feat

Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA) is proposing legislation that would authorize the president to engage the Islamic State militarily. Well, the Islamic State and pretty much anybody else, anywhere, at any time: Wolf on Wednesday told The Hill that when Congress returns from its vacation, he would introduce legislation that would override the 2001 AUMF and … Continue reading There is absolutely no way this could go wrong

Please join me in welcoming Huffington Post's newest Politics Fellow, with a special focus on National Security, Donte Stallworth.You might best remember Donte from his NFL salad days with the New Orleans Saints, or the Philadelphia Eagles, or the New England Patriots, or the Cleveland Browns (but probably not, see below!), or the Baltimore Ravens, … Continue reading Does anybody know the minimum Wonderlic score for getting hired at HuffPo?