Month: January 2018

In 2012, former Political Animal blogger Steve Benen wrote a forty-one part series on the lies of Mitt Romney. Each week during the campaign, he chronicled all the things Romney had said that were untrue and provided a link to...

The Cold War era after the Second World War and fear for the Red Menace: Communism. The US responded with Allen Dulles, CIA, covert ops, McCarthyism, Nixon, Reagan. Personal freedom was made inferior to the needs of  the...

When news broke last week that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell might not even attempt to pass a budget this year, all hell broke loose among so-called fiscal conservatives. A typical comment came from Representative Barry...

Russians asking for help after swarming drone attacks Russia is getting blowback on its support of Assad in Syria and on supporting the takedown of ISIS/ISIL/DAESH.  Now Russia is asking for global help in determining the...

(I originally wrote the following as a comment on Booman’s recent post regarding the false attack alert in Hawaii. It grew, so here it is as a standalone  post.)...