Liberal Talk Radio

Everyone wants to get it out of their system before the new sheriff comes to town: Israel. Turkey. The Taliban.

Y’know, if some enterprising Democratic National Committee member were looking to prevent a deadlock at the convention in August, he or she might want to mention to a certain second-place Senator that the Governor’s mansion in her home state just put up a “vacancy” sign. Just sayin’….

I appreciated Obama’s line in last night’s debate that he wanted to not just end the war, but “end the mindset that got us into war in the first place.” I thought that was his sharpest and most on-point critique of Clinton yet. Yet I thought he missed another opportunity to lay out a contrast [...]

Talking about Charlie Wilson’s War and America’s involvement in Afghanistan in the 1980s, Will writes: Ultimately, I have to disagree with both parties, and with both non-interventionist Democrats and neo-conservative Republicans. America’s involvement in the world should be based on America’s national interest. All other considerations are less important. Was the covert war propagated by [...]

…Never give the Israeli Defense Force root access to the servers that run your Russian-made air defense system: .The technology allows users to invade communications networks, see what enemy sensors see and even take over as systems administrator so sensors can be manipulated into positions so that approaching aircraft can’t be seen, they say. Clearly [...]

You know, if you wanted to spread propaganda about Iran, you could do a lot worse than the Guardian*. *(**) It makes sense then that Rupert Murdoch is contributing to Hillary’s campaign — one more Republican and Fox News won’t get any scoops at all. ** Hey, Bill Strunk*** — does it make sense to [...]

It could very well be that at some point many years from now someone will finally uncover evidence that Saddam and UBL enjoyed an active working relationship. But for now, Vice President Cheney is starting to sound a little bit like those LaRouche people who hang out in front of the post office: Vice President [...]

If it’s common knowledge that at one point Lybia was targeting U.S. diplomats, then this tidbit from the Times’ profile of departing hawk Robert Joseph seems pretty juicy: Inside the White House, he drafted a new policy for aggressively pursuing trade in unconventional weapons, one that goes far beyond export controls. It became the “Proliferation [...]

We saw a trailer for the new Adam Sandler-Don Cheadle movie Reign Over Me just a couple weeks ago at a movie theater right by Times Square and — wouldn’t you know it — they left out a pretty significant detail about the film — specifically, the fact that Adam Sandler’s character apparently lost his [...]

C’mon, America! Now we’ve got a legitimate reason to finish the job Andrew Jackson started. A U.S. Border Patrol entry Identification Team site was overrun Wednesday night along Arizona’s border with Mexico. According to the Border Patrol, an unknown number of gunmen attacked the site in the state’s West Desert Region around 11 p.m. The [...]