Douglas Feith to Teach National Security at Georgetown

Really. "Douglas J. Feith, the former Pentagon policy chief who was an architect of the administration's war on terrorism, is joining the faculty of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. In an announcement Monday, the university said Feith will teach a course on the Bush administration's strategy for the war on terror and also will conduct seminars as a visiting professor and distinguished practitioner in national security policy. He will start this fall. "'I think it'll be...

You Live in Tyranny

The individuals who run the Justice Department have knowingly and deliberately convicted another innocent person. Alexander Cockburn has the details. Why not you next? You are innocent till proven guilty. Admitted perjury by the US Attorney's star witness is not going to be enough to get you off.

Let’s See Them Enforce It

Charlie Savage at the Boston Globe says this ain't far from dictatorship as Bush chooses which laws to enforce and which to ignore (more than 750 so far). It seems to me that the president does have the authority to refuse to enforce laws he believes are unconstitutional. Which of us wouldn't pardon all the drug and gun possession charges and threaten any federal prosecutor who files them in the future with prosecution for violating people's rights on our first day in office? The problem is...

Argue the Point

My friend Jeff Frazee, former staffer to Congressman Ron Paul and graduate student at Texas A&M, has written a great op-ed piece in defense of the right of academic types like John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt to write articles critical of American foreign policy toward Israel without being called a couple of Nazis. I tend to agree with him on this one.

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American Dead in Iraq. No one knows how many Iraqis. Did anyone ever answer Cindy's question?

Social Psycology Experiment – Your Life in the Balance

Two weeks ago I wrote up a little diddy called "Indict the Department of Justice" about the criminal nature of every single one of America's post-9/11 terrorism cases, and ending with the question of whether the State could get a conviction of the father and son in Lodi, California (later updated, answer "Yes" for the latter) based on the bought and paid for ($350,000) testimony of a single witness who also claimed on the stand that Ayman al-Zawahiri was in town in 1999 - a lie so perposterous...