Author: Jeff Huber

Every week I read out of the way, oddly related stories that remind me what an abject barbecue republic America has become under young Mr. Bush’s stewardship.  Here are a few of the latest ones. First up is an item...

You probably already knew this, but sometimes it’s nice to get affirmation that yeah, you were right.  A recently released study by the non-partisan Rand Corporation titled How Terrorist Groups End shows that young...

There are days when Secretary of Defense Robert Gates makes you glad there’s a guy in that office who’s at least trying to keep Dick Cheney and the Crazies in their box.  Other days, Gates says stuff that makes...

The Bush administration and its stepchild John McCain have opted for a bold new strategy to counter the overwhelming success of Barack Obama’s whirlwind foreign policy world tour: they’ve declared victory in Iraq....

event horizon: the boundary of a black hole beyond which nothing can escape from within it — Merriam-Webster Online After five years and change of turned corners and dead enders and last throes, is it possible that...