Steve Benen has an excellent piece in the Washington Monthly on the Tea Party’s incoherence and blind emotion. If we take the Tea Party seriously about wanting their country back, one must ask where were they from 2000-2008 when Bush-Cheney trashed the country? No, theirs is unfocused provincialism against anything alien, foreign, different from their white, [...]

Via 91 Outcomes All About MS – a reportedly common diagnosis among some Gulf War veterans IMAGE:  Multiple sclerosis is a central nervous system disorder marked by decreased nerve function with initial inflammation of the protective myelin nerve covering and eventual scarring. Symptoms and severity of symptoms vary widely and may progress into episodes of [...]

By Hal Bernton at the Seattle Times Last December, Army Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs began joking with other soldiers about how easy it would be to “toss a grenade” at Afghan civilians and kill them, according to statements made by fellow platoon members to military investigators. One soldier said it was a stupid idea. Another believed [...]

By Charlie Savage in the NYT WASHINGTON — After working for a year to redeem the international reputation of military commissions, Obama administration officials are alarmed by the first case to go to trial under revamped rules: the prosecution of a former child soldier whom an American interrogator implicitly threatened with gang rape. The defendant, [...]

From the VA Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1.      Concussions, Combat Stress Taking Toll On Vets, US Government. AFP (8/30, De Luce) reports, “Even as President Barack Obama prepares to declare an end to the combat mission in Iraq,” veterans of the conflict are “waging another war at home against the debilitating effects of [...]

In its pursuit to denuclearize and secularize Pakistan , the US in concert with Israel , India and Britain worked out several contingency plans which ranged from coercion combined with inducement to destabilization, balkanization and fragmentation. Gen Musharraf was successfully coerced to ditch friendly Mullah Omar led Taliban regime in Kabul, to help US in [...]

Did the Israeli Defense Force lead Jews to be gassed like the Sonderkommandoes of WWII, or, just like their Bosses, the Nazis?

- With blazing brilliance, this half-comedian, half-social critic continues his run at being America’s anecdote to the utter vacuity permeating our political culture – By Brendan Patrick Keane at The Keane Edge Jon Stewart is the only pundit to take-on the question of the Ground Zero mosque‘s funding with anything like detail. The mosque is being funded in-part, by Saudi [...]

Dale Felix and Jim Goodell after structural demo flight B 52 DISINTIGATES AT 300 FEET AT 400 KTS…. By Jim Goodell – test pilot for Boeing for 30 years. This story recounts his experiences in flight testing of jet bombers in Boeing Wichita – Editor’s note:  The B-52 Stratofortress, one of the most robust aircraft [...]

- The advent of electronic communication has made it easier to catch personal indiscretions, the Navy says, and modern social norms mean there are more rules to trip over these days – By Jeanette Steel in the SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE The Navy has fired 13 commanding officers so far this year, as senior sailors make career-ending [...]