Month: December 2006

It’s about time that the editorials are coming around to see that sending more troops is not a solution – it just means more deaths and casualties. Only legit reason is for getting those who are there out of there...

Ben Connable, a major in the Marine Corps, has an editorial in today’s New York Times that looks at what happens in Iraq when U.S. troops are withdrawn from hostile regions. American units have already withdrawn from the...

In 2003 the Akha of Hooh Yoh Akha village came over to Pah Nmm Village where I lived on the other hill and asked me to help them because the Queen of Thailand was taking away all of their farm land, about 4500 acres, for a Royal...

David Alexander with Reuters wrote today that the US consumes more than $200  billion per year in “illegal” drugs and that Marijuana is now by far its largest cash crop.Funny how the US government didn’t...

Well, just as there wasn’t much joy in Whoville, thus is life in the Lower 9th Ward nowadays – nearly eighteen months after Hurricane Katrina devastated much of the Gulf Coast – nearly a year and a half after Bush stood in New...