Will John McCain Flip-Flop on Gitmo?

With the expected announcement of the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois, a Republican-driven hysteria is virtually guaranteed. That’s as empty as it is uninteresting. What’s interesting is whether the Republicans’ 2008 presidential nominee and national security elder statesman, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), joins More…

Liz Cheney Sympathizes With the Birthers

Joan Walsh saw this last night: Liz Cheney, the most famous former principal deputy assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs in American history, appeared on Larry King’s CNN show and fielded a question about the Obama birth certificate conspiracies.

Her first response, after being shown a video More…

Quiver Before Our Suspendered Overlord

John McCain tells us he’s going to stand up to Vladimir Putin and chase Osama bin Laden to the “gates of hell” and fight until who-knows-when in Iraq and so forth. But there is one tyrant on this earth who makes even McCain tremble? Larry King. As Eric More…