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• Pakistan's army chief fights to keep his job

  Thu Jun 16, 2011
  • The outrage over the arrest of CIA informants by the Pakistani is just another example of unjustified American self-righteousness. The fact they helped get Bin Laden is irrelevant.

• GOP senator favors cutting US aid to Israel

  Fri Jan 28, 2011
  • Very quixotic of Mr. Paul. Unfortunately it's not about principle or effect but all about money, and doomed to failure by years of propaganda and domestic politics.

• Haitian authorities to question 'Baby Doc' Duvalier

  Tue Jan 18, 2011
  • There is little question that there is collusion and a purpose here since he was allowed to leave France and enter Haiti on an expired passport according to news reports.

• Self-burnings spread across northern Africa

  Mon Jan 17, 2011
  • Of course only in america can you get a reality show to show off the multiple progeny of your test-tube babies to the gawping mob. A sign of a much more advanced and superior civilization; Not!

• Self-burnings spread across northern Africa

  Mon Jan 17, 2011
  • Jabbausaf's is about the only sensible comment here; It was Budhist monks setting themselves on fire in Vietnam, that signalled the end of the Diem regime and the futility and wrong-headedness of America's intervention in that country.

• Gun fair organizer acquitted in boy's Uzi death

  Fri Jan 14, 2011
  • So much for the responsible gun owner argument. As to batting practice with a baseball ball. Way less chance of a kid getting killed by accidentally being hit by a bat or ball than by a bullet.

• Navy relieves officer over lewd videos

  Mon Jan 3, 2011
  • 'That's what she said.' Captain Honors is the naval equivilent of Michael Scott (The Office) - a self-absorbed man, promoted above his level competence and with a delusional view of his own wit and talent.

• Should firefighters have put out the blaze at Gene Cranick's home even though he hadn't paid the fire fee?

  Tue Oct 5, 2010
  • Of course . Just because an assault is occurring just outside his jurisdictional boundary doesn't exempt a cop from intervening.

• U.S. apologizes for Guatemala STD experiments

  Fri Oct 1, 2010
  • Pretty sad to learn that while the Nazis were experimenting horribly with inmates the US was doing the same. Isn't it time to face up to the fact that American exceptionalism isn't so exceptional and its virtue isn't so virtuous.

• Woodward book exposes Obama team’s internal Afghan battles

  Wed Sep 22, 2010
  • It seems that Eisenhower's words have come true. Obama is the latest captive of the Military industrial complex.