Monthly Archives: April 2009

APCONCORD, N.H. -The ceremony came at the end of a three-month reintegration process designed to help soldiers adapt to life as civilians. Brigadier General...

By MELISSA NELSON / Associated Press WriterPublished: April 26th, 2009 03:12 PMLast Modified: April 26th, 2009 05:48 PMNICEVILLE, Fla. - More than 300 employees...

by Mary Beth Sheridan    $350 million effort aimed at drug war.    The Pentagon and Homeland Security Department are developing contingency plans to send National...

by Steve Weissman    Three cheers for Dick Cheney. The former vice president has urged, however rhetorically, that the Obama administration release more of the...

By Sherwood Ross, Staff WriterIf the Pentagon’s instructors haven’t been teaching assassination at the School of the Americas (SOA) in Fort Benning, Ga., is...

by Warren Strobel  Washington - The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration...

Army specialist Terry Holdbrooks had been a guard at Guantánamo for about six months the night he had his life-altering conversation with detainee 590,...

By Joe Byrne Shane Murphy is a sailor trying to get his land-legs on home turf. Less than a week ago, Somali pirates took...

Raw StoryAnother voice has joined the chorus calling for federal judge and 'torture memo' author Jay Bybee to either resign or be impeached.John Podesta,...

In the 100 days since the GOP were turned out from office it has become the rule and not the exception that the party...

By Rick ThorneIt's now commonplace for LIBERALS to VERBALLY SHRED those of us with SPIRITUAL MORALS. God fearing Veterans and Americans who still believe...

Agence France-PresseThe WHO warned Saturday that the virus had the potential to become a pandemic, labeling the current outbreak "a public health emergency of...

Sadly, I cannot legitimize my crimes with great documents from a legal team like Jay Bybee (now a federal judge), John Yoo (now teaching...

BBC-Barack Obama was elected on a message of change. Now he is in office, change is expected both in foreign and domestic policy. Here...

Lincoln Mitchell Assistant Professor in the Practice of International Politics, Columbia UniversityThe information that is being released now regarding interrogations of suspected terrorists conducted...

Trey Ellis Novelist, Screenwriter, and Assistant Professor at Columbia UniversityWhat moral scale could the administration and Harry Reid possibly be using for not wanting...

James MooreAuthor, Communications Consultant, Novelist Manque', Genial WiseacreThe man at the airport bar was watching Dick Cheney on FOX News. (No matter where I...

Joseph A. PalermoAuthor/Associate Professor of HistoryLiz and Dick Cheney, Bill Bennett, Ari Fleischer, and countless other commentators have saturated the public airwaves of late...

Kristen Breitweiser9/11 widow and activistOnce again, it would seem that the Bush Administration and their minions will be permitted to wipe the slate clean...

Jason Linkins [email protected] | HuffPost Reporting From DC I had to figure that Roger Cohen, writing in this morning's New York Times, was going...

Paul BegalaCNN political commentatorIn a CNN debate with Ari Fleischer, I said the United States executed Japanese war criminals for waterboarding. My point was...

Current and former U.S. officials say the failure to carefully examine the value of 'enhanced' methods such as waterboarding -- despite calls to do...

By John ByrneThe Central Intelligence Agency must turn over records regarding detainee interrogation tapes the agency destroyed in an alleged effort to protect the...

The U.S. is obligated by a United Nations convention to prosecute Bush administration lawyers who allegedly drafted policies that approved the use of harsh...

Military budget highlightsShifting priorities Highlights of the proposed cuts and additions in the new U.S. military budget:PROPOSED CUTS  Eliminate the vehicle program portion of the...

NY TimesBy CARL HULSEWASHINGTON — Driven deep into the minority, they have run up against a highly popular Democratic president and chafed under the...

Introduction by Mike Griffith, Staff WriterMany liberals are now desperately denying that waterboarding and other harsh methods yielded any valuable information; they're especially desperate...

Six years after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, America is preparing to start leaving Iraq

As a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, I take very much to heart the well being of the republic, not just for...

by Greg MitchellWith each new revelation on U.S. torture in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gitmo (and who, knows, probably elsewhere), I am reminded of the...

The Republican base is behaving like a guy who just got dumped by his wife.By Bill Maher If conservatives don't want to be seen...

Jay Bybee told colleagues that he was disappointed in the policy decisions that came from the legal reasoning. Now a federal judge, he has...

The GOP is now a dark, putrefied party of Bush, Cheney, Rove, Limbaugh and Coulter. And we're all the worse because of it. (Even...

Experts say Robert M. Gates' careful campaign and timing has outflanked lawmakers and lobbyists as he plans sweeping changes in military spending.By Julian E....

By Rick ThorneVeterans and other Americans have now arrived at the crossroads of freedom. It's now US against THEM! Have you ever considered why...

A legislative maneuver would allow the senators to pass a bill to overhaul healthcare without a single GOP vote. Republicans warn against the move.By...

Introduction and Afterword by Mike Griffith, Staff WriterIn recent weeks we've seen scattered articles in the press and online that claim that "almost all" the detainees...

ABC's "This Week" - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. CBS' "Face the Nation" - Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.---NBC's "Meet the Press"...

INFORMATION FOR VICTIMS OF THE FIREMore than 700 rooms have been offered free of charge by local hoteliers and rental agencies in North Myrtle...

Civil War Emerges at Fox News "We are Americans, We do NOT Fucking torture!" says Shep Smith, FOX NEWSBy Satyam KhannaSince President Obama released...

When Lily Burana married an Army officer, she left behind her life in strip clubs and became a cake-baking military wife. Then came the...

Napolitano apologizes to veterans over 'extremist' flap Homeland Security report says veterans could be recruited by right-wing extremistsHomeland Security chief apologizes for "any offense...