Month: October 2007

The following are excerpts from Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007), originally published on Truthdig, republished on Alternet on October 9, 2007, and...

Republicans like to compare modern conservatism (ignoring the inherent oxymoron) to a stool.  As do I.  They, however, are talking about a famed three legged stool of social conservatism, economic conservatism, and...

Welcome back. This week we’ll be continuing with our 5×7 painting of Arizona’s Grand Canyon.  The photo of our subject is seen in the photo directly below.  (For those new to this series, I will be...

With Al Gore’s winning of the Nobel Peace Prize we are seeing inevitable comparisons of the achievements of two men who, only a few short years ago, competed for the presidency: Gore and George W. Bush. One was given the...

The most pressing issues of our day are ultimately our responsibility no matter how much we want it to be otherwise[W]hen we’re not affirmatively endorsing and providing protection for [Bush’s extremism and...