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Since I've been on the subject of The Battle of Hormuz Strait lately, here's some good thoughts about Mine Warfare from EagleSpeak :...

Ray McGovern , obviously a regular reader of the Brain, has generously expanded upon and clarified my post of yesterday from the intelligen...

Guardian UK Ask corporate lobbyists which presidential contender is most feared by their clients and the answer is almost always the same --...

Swiped a great paragraph from a wonderful post by Greenwald: ... The reason we basically block out from our public discourse the effects ou...

The next chapter of Thirty Days at Zeta is up at The Practical Press . Drop your own links in comments. And for your listening pleasure on ...

Here's a headline at News Hounds that says everything you need to know about the "fair and balanced" lie: FOX News Chickenhaw...

I know we've all read psychological evaluations of the Chimp. Here's a good, and long, one from a coupla shrinks writing for Truthou...

AP Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau's repeated failures to p...

... Bush is in the Mideast for eight days, trying to bolster his goal of achieving a long-elusive peace agreement by the end of his presiden...

Good reading from Jimmy Carter (allegedly) in the Onion : ... You better get down on your hands and knees and kiss Jimmy Carter's rosy-r...

International incident? They're fucking motor boats . A couple little boats and guys with AKs a threat to a cruiser, destroyer, and fr...

I just couldn't resist this. Some excerpts from the Guidebook for Marines referenced in the post below about Blackwater: During your ea...

From Raw Story : Blackwater security contractors employed in Iraq dropped a blinding riot-control gas on Iraqi civilians and US military per...

AP via Raw Story Republican Rep. John Doolittle, who is under investigation in a congressional lobbying scandal, plans to announce Thursday ...

p m carpenter's commentary Of course if Hillary were really convinced that the country needs experience above all other qualifications, ...

The Specious Report The people of the great State of Wyoming don't appreciate being left out of this past week's media frenzy. ...

How is it the most useless group of people in the nation has the privilege to give themselves a raise ? If Congress got paid what they dese...

Maru : C'mon, admit it: no matter what your feelings are regarding Hillary, some part of you had to love hearing that she won in New Ham...

Click to embiggen The difference is, we care about polar bears and want them to survive.

God, I love this city : NEW YORK -- Two men were arrested Tuesday after wheeling a dead man through the streets in an office chair to a chec...