Commentary By Ron Beasley On the 8th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan it might be a good time to ask - whatever happened to Osama bin Laden?   I have always thought that he has been dead for all or most of those eight years and I'm ...

By Steve Hynd Thanks to the BBC, the missile defense debate can be greatly simplified. Here's what Bush proposed and what the neocons are hyperventilating over the ending of plans for: And here's the coverage of the AEGIS sh...

Commentary By Ron Beasley You hear the chant a teabagger events and town hall meetings - "keep the government out of my health care."  Of course many of those people are on Medicare but according to this report from the Kaiser Family Foun...

By Steve Hynd Doug Ross takes this from Obama: Whether, sort of in the aggregate, society making those decisions to give my grandmother, or everybody else’s aging grandparents or parents, a hip replacement when they’re terminally ill i...

By Steve Hynd News that former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was to lead the prestigeous weekly prayers at Tehran University had led some observers to wonder whether he would condemn Ahmadinejad's disputed "victory" in ...

By Steve Hynd Another year, another Thanksgiving, eh? It's been quite a year, too. Last year we were all wondering if Obama's campaign rhetoric would translate into reality. This year we're just thankful he's not George W. Bush, but rather the...

By Dave Anderson Counter-cyclical spending by the government for needed infrastructure does two things. The first is that it fills the gap in demand that the recession caused. This is the basic argument for most stimulus spending --- it puts people...

Commentary By Ron Beasley In response to 60 Minutes' The Cost Of Dying one of my few conservative friends Rick Moran has a very good post.  Rick is not afflicted with religion which is probably why he can make educated moral decisions. Now for...

By Steve Hynd Our good friend Jeremy Scahill broke a truly massive story yesterday at The Nation. At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an...

By Steve Hynd McClatchy has the scoop - President Obama will announce on Dec 1 that he will order 34,000 additional troops sent to Afghanistan. As it now stands, the plan calls for the deployment over a nine-month period beginning in March...