by Chris Marsden World Socialist Website The Pentagon has drawn up plans for military intervention in Syria. A military strike would be coordinated with Turkey, the Gulf States and the NATO powers, according to reports that acknowledge such plans officially for the first time. The plan is described as an “internal review” by Pentagon Central [...]

Israel Ortega, on the left, with friends at CPAC I had the pleasure of talking to Israel Ortega of Heritage Libertad. Q: What is the mission of Heritage Libertad, Israel? Israel: To share the studies, analyses and research of Heritage.org, and to educate the Spanish-speaking public, since liberty is important in our country and the [...]

Rick Santorum gave an excellent speech on the theme of conservative values, ideas, vision, and honor as contrast to the failed Obama administration policies. As someone who has been totally unimpressed by Santorum up to now, I was very interested on what he had to say. He was engaged, he engaged the audience, and drove [...]

Emily Zanotti, and Erik Svane of No Pasarán The big ballroom Alberto de la Cruz and I. Val Prieto and Alberto de la Cruz of Babalu Blog, Bruce McQuain, and Jon Hayward of Human Events.

Adam Kotso writes: To many observers, the Catholic hierarchy’s opposition to birth control seems nonsensical — they might as well oppose ice cream. It seems like a win-win: the liberals are happy that women get reproductive freedom, but meanwhile if you’re anti-abortion, it seems like avoiding unwanted pregnancies in the first place is the best [...]

Pity Mitt Romney. After all, when Fox News and Rasmussen have abandoned you, what is left? While Rick Santorum continues to creep closer to Romney in national GOP primary polling (and Rasmussen desperately continues to make an electability argument for Santorum), Romney’s prospects when paired with Barack Obama in a prospective general election battle continue [...]

Elizabeth Warren on the campaign trail in New Bedford, MA (Elizabeth Warren/Facebook) The 110,000-member Massachusetts Teachers Association has endorsed Elizabeth Warren for Senate. The MTA, an affiliate of the National Education Association, made its endorsement within hours of the Massachusetts SEIU‘s endorsement of Warren. The MTA’s endorsement is made through a committee that includes members [...]

Back in 1990, the Supreme Court of the United States was confronted with quite a sticky situation: Alfred Smith and Galen Black had been fired from their jobs with a private drug rehabilitation organization because they ingested peyote for sacramental purposes at a ceremony of the Native American Church, of which both are members. Their [...]

National Rifle Association chief Wayne La Pierre told a cheering crowd Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference that Barack Obama has been hiding his true intentions about gun-owners until he wins a second term: “In public, he’ll remind us that he’s put off calls from his party to renew the Clinton [assault weapons] ban, [...]

Fake. Issue. (Ceridwen/Wikimedia Commons) At CPAC, some top conservative minds (stay with me here) got together to try to decide how to defeat the previously not terribly controversial law mandating insurance cover contraception. Their conclusion? Conservatives should just lie about it: Stop talking about birth control. That was the key message from some of the [...]