OohRah! Marine shows us how far we’ve come since elimination of DADT

In this video excerpt from a Hawaii television report, we see Marine Sgt Brandon Morgan and his partner Dalan Wells discussing the photograph of the welcome home kiss that two shared after Sgt. Brandon returns from deployment overseas. [...]

The Keystone XL Kops

There is an existing pipeline from the Canadian oil sands into the United States…lets call it the Keystone L Pipeline for fun. It essentially runs a few hundred miles east from the Athabasca Oil Sands in eastern Alberta Canada before heading south into the United States. The Keystone L Pipeline currently terminates at a refinery [...]

Takedown: The Thomas Friedman Edition

Thomas Friedman is a hack.  Thomas Friedman has always been a hack.  And if past performance is any indicator of future performance, Thomas Friedman will always be a hack.

Why do people in power believe Thomas Friedman is anything other than a hack?  Robert Jensen, in an interview with the author of  The Emperor’s Messenger [...]

Damn Pacifist Socialist Bastard!

Can you believe this?  Some damn commie appeaser Obamabot loving nazi columnist pooped this across dozens, nay hundreds of US newspapers today!  For shame!

The U.S. defense budget is about 43 percent of the world’s total military spending — more than the combined defense spending of the next 17 nations, many of which are U.S. allies. Are Republicans really [...]

The Pentagon Wars: A-10 v F-35 Edition

The Pentagon is famous for overpriced and underperforming weapons systems.  There was a hilarious film about it with Carey Elwes as an Air Force Lt. Colonel serving as a Pentagon watchdog and Kelsey Grammar as the program manager for the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.

Caspar Weinberger: Please be seated. This will be brief, as I’m needed [...]

Mark Fiore: Snuggly SOPA-PIPA!

Pulitzer winning animated editorial cartoonist Mark Fiore takes on SOPA-PIPA

The Bush Doctrine or The Obama Doctrine

Which is better?  You decide.

Libertarian Hypocrite of the Week [UPDATED]

[UPDATE: I have issued a correction and apology to Dr. Nerenz. My assertions regarding his academic bona fides were incorrect and I would like to correct the record accordingly]

At the American’s for Prosperity Bund Rally in Waukesha on Saturday (full details here), the audience was subjected to the Randian vocal stylings of “Dr.” Tim [...]

The 2010 Election was Historic

And will be discussed in the History books for years and years… It was the year The "tea party" took over the US in the form of a grassroots anti-government movement and turned most states and much of congress red. That was November 2010, by February 2011, the picture was starting to get much clearer [...]

Obama signs defense bill sacrificing civil liberties into law

Why am I not surprised President Obama signed this into law? President Barack Obama signed a wide-ranging defense bill into law Saturday despite having “serious reservations” about provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists.

Under the new law signed by President Obama, any suspect who is a member of al-Qaida or [...]