It’s good to see that war hawks are using their favorite tactic of fear mongering in order to gain support for a war of choice.

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Law Enforcement knows that paramilitary raids have very little to do with “officer safety” (as they so often claim), but with intimidation. Police State USA: Cooper, who is training to be a wild land fire fighter, said that on August 23, he was contacted by Officer Jason Kuafman of the Prescott Valley Police Department and […]

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The reason that Hollywood has been largely absent in responding to Obama’s beating the drums of war is that they don’t want to become the victim of their own tactics that have been used against many conservatives and libertarians for 5 years now. They’re afraid of being called a racist. Paul Bond at Hollywood Reporter: […]

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Anti-war movement, where hast thou gone? There’s been a lot of talk about the absence of a strong and visible anti-war movement, the way there was during the George W. Bush Presidency. While there are protests against intervention in Syria, in general the movement seems to be a lot weaker under Obama. If you guessed […]

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When your discretion dictates that you need a SWAT team that is half the size of a small mining town in rural Alaska in order to check for supposed water violations, you’re doing it wrong. Miners from the Chicken area — a gold mining town of just 17 full-time residents and dozens of seasonal miners […]

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Can we stop pretending that Democrats are somehow inherently anti-war? The Obama administration’s efforts to get Congress to pass an authorization for military force against Syria are going badly in policy terms, but they are looking up in political terms. Even as the administration’s arguments become more strained, the political imperative that Democrats must support […]

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Peter Gray at Salon on the utter baseness of the modern school system: Compulsory schooling has been a fixture of our culture now for several generations. It’s hard today for most people to even imagine how children would learn what they must for success in our culture without it. President Obama and Secretary of Education […]

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Some fun answers by Senator Obama: [Q:] In what circumstances, if any, would the president have constitutional authority to bomb Iran without seeking a use-of-force authorization from Congress? (Specifically, what about the strategic bombing of suspected nuclear sites — a situation that does not involve stopping an IMMINENT threat?) [A:] The President does not have […]

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If only those who claim to be part of the reality-based community actually valued science over fear mongering. I’ll start with the bottom line first: despite all word to the contrary, there is no reason for anyone to be concerned that “contaminated” water from the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station is going to cause […]

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If you are having your 6 year old arrested, you’re a lousy fucking parent. Mill Creek parents told KOMU 8 News police arrested the student at the request of his parents because they’re having trouble with him at home. The six year old was in an in-school suspension room, where he allegedly tore and threw […]

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