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A couple of minutes after Liz made her statement, we found all the major media in the world - as our exhausted spokeswoman put it, “CNN, NY...

Robbing NASA blind :  Notice that [in this scenario] the Falcon XX launch cost for this operation is comparable to the current cost of pay...

In February 1961, Schlesinger was first told of the "Cuba operation" that would eventually become the Bay of Pigs Invasion. He op...

Oh my : … Earlier this year, lawmakers set aside $436 million for the construction and maintenance of the mighty M-1 Abrams tank, of which...

The Day Mandela Was Arrested, With A Little Help From the CIA – Newsweek

Matt Bors : Thinking further about the bugs on Healthcare.gov, it occurred to me that I’ve *never* been able to apply for health insurance...

I started this several weeks ago. It is unfinished. I lack the energy to finish it. Maybe one day I will finish it. Maybe not. Does it matte...

Dear Mr President – STOP Dear Mr. President the world has gone astray Brothers are dying they won't live to see today Was it all w...

They call it "counterinsurgency". The pattern in Iraq provides an eerie parallel to the well-documented human rights abuses comm...

The Allies Second Front in World War II: Why Were Canadian Troops Sacrificed at Dieppe?

We've written quite a bit about single payer health care systems as well as other models that are a mixture of public and private spendi...

Robert Fisk: Could there be some bad guys among the rebels too? John McCain backed the good guys in Libya, who are now keenly torturing th...

Franco is still dead… By Scott Horton … but his spirit seems to have inspired a courtroom drama in Madrid the past few weeks. Baltasar Ga...

Really Bad.  ( via ) Or maybe it is an underlying problem that causes all other problems, and income inequality is just another measure fo...

The biggest problem is that this policy doesn't actually do anything to keep these patients out of the ER. They pay nothing now, they w...

Our ignorance has deep roots. The first person to write a detailed account of Cahokia's mounds was Henry Brackenridge, a lawyer and ama...

… tells it like it is:

Repost of a classic, due to recent events : The Militarization of Our Police

Here’s another thing that boggles my mind: You get busted for drugs in this country, and it turns out you can make yourself ineligible to r...

As it turns out, it isn’t only the President’s drone-cheering supporters who have no idea who is being killed by the program they support; n...