Month: June 2008

War? Once again, notably in the wake of this week’s annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference and the visit here of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, there’s a lot of chatter about a...

I’m all kinds of late on this, I know, but I was struck by this clip from Bill O’Reilly’s show, in which he and a guest can’t come up with a single reason to oppose same-sex marriage. It’s an...

Or is it?  That’s a question I’ll pose in relation to the following: You can line up 100 professional war historians and political scientists to talk about the 20th century, and not one is likely to mention the...

don’t worry, the party that wants to bring you the change you deserve is giving it to you again…   today the RATpublican’ts in the senate killed a bill that would have placed a windfall profits tax on the...

I’m back in the States and it’s nearly 100 degrees out. Not only that, but one of the kids missed a package of ground turkey when they were unpacking the groceries from the car last week, and it baked in the sun the...