“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.” Who said it?
Deepwater Horizon rig "damaged" – WTF?
I was heading into work today when I heard someone on NPR talking about the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and the rig’s owners Transocean. Apparently Transocean is trying to limit the company’s […]
Meet Satan's towel boy, Ralph Nader, and other famous rabblerousers in a call for open debates
He’s the man who caused Sep. 11, war in the Gulf, a million Iraqi deaths and probably mad cow disease too, as you’ve no doubt heard from disgruntled Democrats. Of course I’m […]
How to win the Iraq war debate against your dumb friends
by Lee Camp Recently I was arguing with one of my dumber friends about the Iraq war. He loves Bush and thinks bigger bombs is the answer in Iraq. I wasn’t gaining […]
Millions of Americans are drinking water tainted with drugs
By Martin Bosworth If you were grossed out by the generally reasonable idea of drinking recycled sewer water to preserve supplies, you’ll love this–as many as 41 million Americans have been drinking […]
Halliburton: We don't just rape countries and economies, we rape employees too
By Martin Bosworth Imagine it. You’re a patriotic Army bride who goes overseas to support the war in Iraq, only to be drugged and brutally raped and assaulted. Imagine being locked in […]
There’s no business like war business…
To have half of your army be contractors, I don’t know that there’s a precedent for that…. Maybe the precedent was the British and the Hessians in the American Revolution. Maybe that’s […]
A Karl Rove Quotabull
I don’t see Dick Cheney’s leadership in running a construction and oil service company to be a problem at all when compared to [the Clinton] administration’s failure to have a comprehensive energy […]
Arms and the jihad, I sing…
80,000. That’s how many Glock 19’s and other pistols the GAO figures have gone missing among the 190,000 weapons that are “lost” in the Iraq War zone. Newsweek offers a thoughtful examination […]
U.S. intelligence gathering: bought and sold
By Martin Bosworth Several months ago Vanity Fair ran an absolutely scathing and incisive expose of SAIC, one of the largest government/military contractors in operation. The author went deep into the ranks […]
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