A couple of articles showing how the war is affecting the ability of the forces to stay ready to react to other crises around the world.A classified Pentagon assessment concludes [...]

I liked how Carpetbagger broke down the Bush Economic Record, as compared to the President's pronouncement at the CPAC Conference.Here's an example:* “[I]increased revenues from that growth have put us [...]

Nice intersection of two of my favorite topics - the overabundance of religion in the military and the religious right's demonization of Islam. The 3 gents are now born again [...]

Here's the link. And I should probably "conveniently" to that title. It's not usually the military behind these sorts of dirty tricks - or at least not JAGs. But I'm [...]

Here's the quote I like..."Forget the gaseous platitudes: in Dem terms, their choice on Super Duper Tuesday was deciding which candidate was Super Duper and which was merely Super. Over [...]

Count me among the 48% of Americans who say a pullout [from Iraq] would help fix the country's economic problems "a great deal." An additional 20 percent say it would [...]

http://news.lp.findlaw.com/ap_stories/i/1107/01-31-2008/20080131132047_044.htmlLooks like this guy was a big deal in Afghanistan. He was taken out by "a missile hit [on] a compound about 2.5 miles outside Mir Ali in North Waziristan [...]

Secretary Gates talks about the Taliban being routed from Afghanistan. Musa Qala is the area of Afghanistan that U.S. and Afghanistan forces concentrated on in the fall before the winter [...]

The story on what the administration is doing with the Protect America Act now (just as they did in August) is long and involved. And the reason for this post [...]

So previously, John Negroponte had acknowledged that the U.S. used waterboarding when he said in an interview that the technique "has not been used in years." http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/01/negroponte_confirms_use_of_wat.phpAnd now CIA Director [...]