boston marathon

Ridiculous fearmongering by CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Peter Bergen

From this April 15, 2014 CNN video, they start the six minute segment with talk of suspicious backpacks near the finish line of this year’s Boston Marathon, then talk about some purported video of a recent Al Qaeda demonstration in Yemen, and CNN’s “Terrorism Expert” Peter Bergen comes on to scare the viewers about Al […]

2013 in Review -- A Prayer to the Janitor of Lunacy,* Part 2: Remember when Reagan cut funds for insane asylums?

Storms, guns, bombs, free stuff, and the secret gay life of Obama: Some top Republican lies of 2013[*TO MEET THE JANITOR OF LUNACY, SEE PART 1]Plum loco, stone stoopid, or pathologically dishonest? You be the judge.by NoahI'm calling this "Some top Republican lies" because everyone else does "Top 10s" or "Top 20s," but I see no reason to come up with some arbitrary round number.

John McCain, Carl Levin, Lindsey Graham, Others, Mull Possible ‘Update’ to AUMF

The September 18, 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), ostensibly a vehicle for the U.S. to go after the perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, DC., turns out to have been a whole hell of a lot more than that nearly 12 years on. That simple joint resolution has been stretched very thin during the War on Terror.