Rod Nordland and David Zucchino in The New York Times review the current state of Afghanistan’s military. Their assessment is that the Afghan government forces are good at getting killed by Taliban fighters. It has gotten so bad that the government doesn't even put...
Even people who can’t tell you what agencies were involved in the Waco massacre will say, “They were a suicide cult and set themselves on fire!” We’ll look at the fire, and who started it, at a later date. For now, let’s see if there is any evidence that the Branch...
The Second Amendment is one of most fundamental provisions of the Bill of Rights, and one of the most fiercely debated. Since it was first put to paper, legal scholars, gun owners and anti-gun activists have engaged in an endless discussion over the meaning and scope...
Social Media is a sewer. Sure, it’s a medium that makes it easy to reach out to family, share photos and even documents; but places like Facebook, and especially Twitter, have become digital war zones in which the extremes on both sides of the political spectrum go to...
Asa’s story is the quintessential tale of rags to riches coupled with a class-defying love affair. A rural “savage” who’s left a wealthy estate by a distant family member, only to run up against envious schemers from polite society, Asa falls in love with a poor...
In 1984, as part of Ronald Reagan’s renewed war on drugs, the Drug Enforcement Administration launched Operation Pipeline. This program was inspired by the strategies employed by state troopers in New Mexico who, after pulling somebody over, asked specific questions...
“The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul,” he wrote. “The only difference between this and the use of gas (which President Franklin D. Roosevelt had barred as a first-use weapon in World War II) is the fear of...
As TFTP previously reported, on the night of Aug. 10, 2016, Tony Timpa called 911 asking police to help him because he had a history of mental illness and he was off his medication. When police arrived, Timpa was already handcuffed by a private security guard and was...
