War Is Boring

It’s finally happened. I got flamed by Code Pink, the fringe anti-war group famous for … well, wearing pink and being annoying. Tony Blome from Code Pink’s San Francisco operations wrote to scold me for my recent Wired article “Hidden History: America’s Secret Drone War in Africa,” in which I detailed drone operations over Somalia since 2007.

Ace political reporter Dave Weigel at Slate interviews Corey Hutchins and I about our graphic novel THE ACCIDENTAL CANDIDATE.

by DAVID AXE MSNBC host Rachel Maddow says our “cool” Alvin Greene comic THE ACCIDENTAL CANDIDATE is “sitting on my night table.” Watch Maddow praise the comic in this clip.

Charleston City Paper reviews THE ACCIDENTAL CANDIDATE.

The Daily Caller calls our Alvin Greene comic book a “masterpiece”:

Rodney Welch at Free Times reviews THE ACCIDENTAL CANDIDATE.

Jasper reviews THE ACCIDENTAL CANDIDATE.

A great review of THE ACCIDENTAL CANDIDATE by Thornwell Simons.

Matt Bors reviews THE ACCIDENTAL CANDIDATE.

From the Palmetto Public Record.

My co-author Corey Hutchins discusses our new book THE ACCIDENTAL CANDIDATE: THE RISE AND FALL OF ALVIN GREENE on Pub Politics, a popular S.C. podcast.

ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA — Down the road from the Coast Guard air station, past the copse of oak trees, surrounded by fields of leafy collard greens, in a 1,000-foot-long steel hangar built during World War II here in coastal North Carolina, the unlikely dream of an upstart military contractor is about to be literally deflated. In the hangar’s musty gloom, underneath rafters where countless birds perch and spatter the concrete floor 200 feet below with their waste, a 370-foot-long, ultra-high-tech surveillance airship floats just a foot off the ground, tethered to Earth by three metal cables each weighing three tons.