WASHINGTON — The Pentagon study that argues that gay troops could serve openly without hurting the military’s ability to fight is expected to re-ignite debate this month on Capitol Hill over repealing the 17-year-old “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Officials familiar with the 10-month study’s results have said a clear majority of respondents don’t care [...]

I once followed Metallica through a coliseum’s fluorescent underground maze to a pitch-black stage. When the lights ignited, the crowd unleashed a roar like the tailpipe of a fighter jet. The band responded with fusillades of drums and screaming guitars. The players — thoughtful, even gentle, over pre-show Chinese food — engaged their mostly young, [...]

BEIJING — This weekend’s arrival of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Yellow Sea poses a dilemma for Beijing: Should it protest angrily and aggravate ties with Washington, or quietly accept the presence of a key symbol of American military pre-eminence off Chinese shores? The USS George Washington, accompanied by escort ships, is to take [...]

Some photos from the new Haiti Grassroots Watch report. Go ahead and vote on these photos… since you can’t vote in the questionable elections funded by US tax dollars (about $15 million of $29 million) to be held in Haiti on Nov. 28. Check out the new articles – with an interview about the 1990 [...]

If you thought circulation dives and ad revenue anguish were problems across the print media industry, you clearly haven’t looked at the entire market. Print is alive and well in North Korea … according to North Korea, at least. While the likes of Rupert Murdoch are trying to figure out how to recreate a paper-based [...]

President Bush: Frank, please consider filling a post I’m creating. It may mean long hours and dangerous nights, surrounded by some of the scummiest elements in our society. Frank: You want me to be in your cabinet? – The Naked Gun 2 1/2, starring Leslie Nielsen Whatever the spin, the fact is that 1.6 gigabytes [...]

EAST KOREA (The Borowitz Report) – The situation on the Korean peninsula became more precarious today as the little-known nation of East Korea, tired of being overlooked, declared war on both North and South Korea. Saying it has grown weary of being “the forgotten Korea,” East Korea said it hoped that declaring war on the [...]

This article is being updated. A newly released batch of diplomatic cables provided by WikiLeaks focuses on North Korea, the Guardian is reporting. Coming shortly after North Korea’s attacks on the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong, the dispatches reveal delicate information about China’s alliance with the rogue state, as well as the danger it poses [...]

So, over the weekend, Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) went on CNN’s “State Of The Union”, where he talked about the need for “regime change” in North Korea. John McCain is always doing things like this! During the 2008 campaign, he wanted to bomb Iran, liberate the teensy region of South Ossetia from the Russians, and [...]

Liz Cheney, a former State Department official and the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, said Sunday that the Bush administration was to blame for the recent attack by the North Korean military on a South Korean island. During a discussion on Fox News Sunday, Cheney, who has adamantly defended Bush’s policies when others [...]