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Declassified CIA Documents Reveal US Helped Saddam Hussein Knowing He Would Use Chemical Weapons 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Recently declassified documents reveal the U.S. was willing to help Saddam Hussein in the war between Iraq and Iran in the 1980s, despite knowing that he had and intended to use chemical weapons. ...
Syria: War Has Been a Long Time Coming 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
The groundwork for whatever might be happening with the U.S. military in Syria has been percolating for a long time. I wrote in April 2003 that the logic of U.S. actions in the Middle East demanded...
Leahy Schedules a Senate Hearing on the Federal Response to Marijuana Legalization 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Today Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) announced that he will convene a hearing on September 10 to examine “conflicts between state and federal marijuana laws.” He has inv...
Syria Strikes Seem More and More Likely, Congress to Discuss State Marijuana Laws, Feds Help Pay for Detroit Streetcar Line: P.M. Links 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
By the time you read this, the United States may be launching air strikes on Syria, lack of American public support be damned. Maybe not today, though. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel says the st...
Bear Grylls Investigated Over Water Slide 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Even the seclusion of his private island cannot protect Bear Grylls from the reach of local government. The outdoorsman and television personality is under investigation after installing a water sl...
The Job Market Needs More Women Gamers 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
It may be an unusual take-away from the latest study that shows how playing video games improve cognitive skills, but the difficulties researchers had putting this one together send an unexpected m...
Why Should Chemical Weapons Be a Red Line in Syria – or Anywhere Else? 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Writing at The Washington Times last week, John Glaser raised a question that’s almost impolite in discussions about U.S. foreign policy. Basically, he asked why chemical weapons are considered a t...
Journalists Wonder Why They're Not Paying Attention to Virginia's Libertarian Candidate for Governor 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Media treatment of third-party political candidates usually consists of blowing tumbleweeds and a chorus of crickets interspersed with an occasional “ain’t that cute” human interest story. But Repu...
If NSA Workers Feel Unloved, Why Don't They Quit? 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Despite a stirring defense of all things creepy made by General Keith Alexander to the beleaguered staff at the National Security Agency in June, the nation’s spooks, spies and snoops are feeling u...
Is Western Intervention in Syria Imminent Now? 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
The Russians appear to think so, calling Western war planning “illegal.” Interventionists have been looking for a reason to meddle in Syria since hostilities in that country first began in 2011, a...
