Month: June 2007

How My Iowa Precinct Caucus Works

With all the talk about Presidential Campaigns, debates, etc. these days, I thought the world could stand yet another story about how the caucus process works in Iowa. Other folks can fill you in on how the larger precincts...

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Awareness Growing Exponentially

I came across what in my opinion is a surprising survey this morning.  It reveals a stunning increase in the awareness on climate change among the populations of 47 participating nations (for list, see footnote in pdf-doc...

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A Torturer’s Tortured Conscience

Another crack in the doorway that reveals the festering monster that has been created in the laboratory known as the Global War on Terror: “I tortured people,” said Lagouranis, 37, who was a military intelligence...

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Open Letter to Congressman Ron Paul

There are numerous reasons to admire you, as I have for many years.  Clearly you are running for president as a Republican, rather than a third party candidate, for the sole purpose of getting media and public attention not...

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War Talk

The Bush administration has replaced some of its featured soloists, but its tune hasn’t changed.   During an unannounced visit to Kabul on Monday, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the campaign to defeat the...

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