White Lunatic Arrested For Terrorizing Kindly Muslim Couple at Gunpoint

Adam Weinstein · 05/28/15 11:40AM

Majida and Adly Abumayaleh were just driving across their suburban Minneapolis-area neighborhood on a Friday night to get their teen son from a party. Until a self-appointed watchwoman, Nancy Kay Knoble, decided they might be agents of international jihad and grabbed a rifle.

Saudi Arabia Seeks 8 New Executioners For All These Dang Beheadings

Adam Weinstein · 05/18/15 02:39PM

Shit is tough for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. You gotta sell the oil, keep it chummy with the United States, and also prove you deserve to run things around the holiest sites for all Muslims. Which means you gotta be holier than thou. Which means you gotta get more sword-happy head-cutter-offers.

Remember When a U.S. Terror Ally Massacred 1,000 People and We Shrugged?

Adam Weinstein · 05/13/15 12:39PM

Ten years ago today, in the Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan, a mass of people gathered to protest arrests and violence by state police. Authorities shot at least 1,000 to death. The figures remain sketchy, in part because U.S. officials—led by Donald Rumsfeld—opposed an investigation of a valued partner in the war on terror.

Pentagon Workers Used DOD Credit Cards For Sexy Times With Vegas Escorts

Adam Weinstein · 05/07/15 11:57AM

A soon-to-be-released military audit will reveal that “a number of Pentagon employees” gambled and solicited escorts in Atlantic City and Las Vegas on the taxpayer dime, prompting one U.S. senator to remind civil servants not to use their government credit cards “for prostitutes.”

Guy at JFK With $19,000 Worth of Coke in His Butt Isn't Fooling Anyone

Adam Weinstein · 05/04/15 10:27AM

In this politically charged atmosphere, we rarely hear of U.S. border-patrol success stories. So let us commend the intrepid customs agents who bravely saved a bevy of junior Goldman VPs from huffing a pound of artisanal taint-roasted blow after it nestled near this nervous flier’s anus.

Naval Hovercraft Wipes Out Kayaker Off Florida Coast

Adam Weinstein · 04/27/15 12:40PM

Florida and Navy officials revealed last Friday that they’re investigating an incident in which a U.S. Navy hovercraft being operated off-base by military contractors ran over a kayaker at high speed, leaving him bloodied in the water off Panama City Beach.

Remember When Bush and Cheney Fought Over Bombing Iran?

Adam Weinstein · 04/22/15 09:52AM

There was Dick Cheney, as always, arguing that the only way to deal with Iran was to bomb it back to 1953. But President George W. Bush, on the unanimous advice of his generals, decided such a campaign would be a disaster—and Cheney began an end run that’s working wonders with today’s top Republicans.

Mike Huckabee Tells Patriots: Don't Join Military Until Obama's Gone

Adam Weinstein · 04/20/15 01:16PM

In 2007, folksy war addict Mike Huckabee told Meet the Press viewers that it’s dangerous “to oppose a sitting commander in chief while we’ve got people being shot at on the ground.” But it’s election time! So now, willing Americans, stay out of the military until you have a commander in chief that pleases Huck.

Dumb Marco Rubio Has a Dumb Plan to Expand Gitmo, Torture More Folks

Adam Weinstein · 04/15/15 12:58PM

Desperate to stand apart from the pack and court soccer moms with a thirst for waterboarding, future presidential also-ran Marco Rubio staked out a remarkable policy position on day one of his campaign: He'd grow the detainee population at Guantánamo and "aggressively" pump prisoners for intelligence.

Bush Officials ​Screwed Up FBI's Case Against Blackwater, Emails Show

Adam Weinstein · 04/13/15 09:19AM

Why did it take the federal government so long to prosecute the Blackwater contractors who shot up a Baghdad square in 2007, killing and maiming scores of Iraqis? Because investigators were trying to wait out the Bush administration, which wanted to go easy on the killers, recently unearthed documents show.