Month: October 2014

My alternative title was “This is great news for John McCain,” because of course it is: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that the United States needs more troops on the ground to assist with airstrikes against...

Promoted by Steven D to the front page, and now placed back in the diaries section as it has scrolled off the front page. Thank you, Marie. The story of Thomas Eric Duncan (NYTimes link) and his families has been reported in...

These kind of articles are always fun because we can point and laugh at the hypocritical religious conservatives who advocate one thing for us an then do another thing in their own private lives. A new study published in the...

It’s been clear for a while that there really isn’t a political or strategic reason to maintain the trade embargo on Cuba. Even Cuban-Americans living in Florida are no longer pro-embargo, and they don’t vote...

I never met him except online. He was a writer, an editor, a father, a poet and a cantor. Now he is dead, senselesly murdered by the violent act of an angry man. An ex-houseguest stabbed him to death for no good reason. Here is...