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General James (Mad Dog) Mattis was interviewed at the Hoover Institute in this February 2016 video. Topics include his views on geopolitics, political and military priorities within the American government, and the nature of warfare and the men who fight.

An African-American man was shot in an encounter with El Cajon Police Tuesday, multiple witnesses said, while a woman wailed nearby, demanding to know why police shot her brother. Hours later, police officers told NBC 7 San Diego the man was acting erratically and failed to comply, although they did not release details on the specific threat he presented to officers.

The congressman from Seattle has finally done it. "Baghdad Jim" McDermott has lost his mind. Gone bonkers. Fallen from the cuckoo's nest and broken his left wing. No other reason could possibly explain why he would hit the talk-radio circuit last week and suggest President Bush timed the capture of Iraqi henchman Saddam Hussein for political gain. The U.S. military, McDermott cynically huffed to KIRO-AM talk show host Dave Ross, could have found Saddam "a long time ago if they wanted." The good congressman wasn't done. Asked to elaborate about whether he thought the timing of the capture was scripted...

Nearly two days after the horrific suicide attacks on civilian workers in New York and Washington, it has become painfully clear that most Americans simply don't get it. From the president to passersby on the streets, the message seems to be the same: this is an inexplicable assault on freedom and democracy, which must be answered with overwhelming force - just as soon as someone can construct a credible account of who was actually responsible. Shock, rage and grief there has been aplenty. But any glimmer of recognition of why people might have been driven to carry out such atrocities, ...

At a Dinner Celebrating the Opening of the new Cato Institute Building, Washington, D.C., May 6, 1993 The Cato Institute has an unusual political cause - which is no political cause whatsoever. We are here tonight to dedicate ourselves to that cause, to dedicate ourselves, in other words to…nothing. We have no ideology, no agenda, no catechism, no dialectic, no plan for humanity. We have no "vision thing," as our ex-president would say, or as our current president would say, we have no Hillary. All we have is the belief that people should do what people want to do, unless ...