One of the reasons I’m apolitical is that loyalty to groups can make people extremely immoral. They allow themselves to become corrupted in defense of the indefensible. Protecting a member or the leader of a group takes precedence over everything, even human life. I’ve figured out the real secret of what happened in Benghazi on…
Father-son liars tell idiots what they want to hear
May 22, 2015
You can’t get more dishonest than the father-son duo of Sidney and Max Blumenthal. Sidney is a longtime Clinton sycophant. He was the head of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private intelligence-gathering organization, even though Blumenthal is a journalist and has no training whatsoever in spycraft. Sidney’s son Max Blumenthal is an author and journalist…
Who really ordered US special forces into Syria?
May 16, 2015
Last night the US Army Combat Applications Group (CAG)—known popularly as the Delta Force—killed Islamic State emir Abu Sayyaf in eastern Syria. The special forces carried out what’s called an air assault: They were flown in by Black Hawk helicopters and V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. This was an incredibly risky operation. The goal was to…
I used to be a journalist
December 30, 2013
I was a history major, and I used to be a journalist. When I wrote about musicians, I never had preconceived ideas about the story I’d produce. It was entirely up to the interviewee. In my military-history books, I go only where the facts take me. So I get angry when I see “respected journalists”…