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All The President’s Wars: How Foreign Policy Became One Man’s Prerogative

Great overview on the President's unchecked and unconstitutional power to declare war: via Reason TV: As Barack Obama announces the beginning of troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, a far bigger issue - one that goes to the heart of American history and ...

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More US soldiers died due to suicide than combat last year

Why isn't the media all over this? Truly tragic. via congress.org: For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide than it has to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. The reasons are complicated and the accounting uncertain ...

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