Where’s the Terror?

September 11, 2006Post-9/11 prosecutions end with a whimper Brian Doherty Reason Many elements of post-9/11 law enforcement are supposed to be justified by a real, serious, ongoing threat of further domestic terror assaults. Without that threat, the ways 9/11 supposedly had to change law enforcement become meaningless

Say It Ain’t So Man.

My God man! What the hell has happened to this country? We at Stress do not make this stuff up: From the Boston Globe: "Maine National Guard members in Iraq and Afghanistan are never far from the thoughts of their loved ones. But now, thanks to a popular family-support program, they're even closer. Welcome to the ``Flat Daddy" and ``Flat Mommy" phenomenon, in which life-size cutouts of deployed service members are given by the Maine National Guard to spouses, children, and relatives back home....

America

Bush Aims to Kill War Crimes Act by Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith September 5, 2006 The US War Crimes Act of 1996 makes it a felony to commit grave violations of the Geneva Conventions. The Washington Post recently reported that the Bush administration is quietly circulating draft legislation to eliminate crucial parts of the War Crimes Act. Observers on The Hill say the Administration plans to slip it through Congress this fall while there still is a guaranteed Republican majority--perhaps...

Michael Medved: Leninist

Check out the pathetic barrel-bottom scraping communist "logic" the Republican party's pied pipers have led their rats to (as of September 6, 2006): "The way to judge the morality of a military effort isn

Democrats and Progressives Love Slavery

Just look at their comments on Huffington Post, tripping over themselves to praise Rep. Murtha's evil call for military slavery. Take note of their reverence for past wars that were grander and more smoothly run than Shrub's. This is too disgusting for words. If I had to choose between a welfare-state-worshipping, envirowacko, micromanagement party like the Democrats and a full-blown imperial warfare state party like the Republicans, I'd choose the former. But if the Dems are the ones who...

How We Bungled the Japanese Surrender

Look Magazine, June 6, 1950 By Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, USN (Ret.) The way was open to get Japan to surrender at least six months before VJ-Day. How we could have avoided the final agonies of the war in the Pacific is told here for the first time. Everybody remembers the outward signs of the Japanese collapse. After one of the costliest campaigns of the war, we had secured Okinawa on the very doorstep of Japan; then we had unleashed the awful might of the A-bomb; and finally Russia, on...