Author: Steven D

Today is my son’s graduation day from high school. Just a short while ago it seems I was holding him in my arms as a newborn, showing him to his mother, all red and white and bundled up in hospital blankets, the proud...

Turkey’s military and government are fed up with what they see as state sponsored terrorism by Iraq’s Kurds. Turkey has claimed the right to create a militarized buffer zone in Northern Iraq to protects against...

Are the Iraqi insurgents so well armed they have the means to shoot down our fighter jets, now? Certainly sounds like it’s a possibility, based on this report at IraqSloggger: A U.S. Air Force F-16 plane with one crew...

In May, 1964, two black teenagers and civil rights activists, Charles Moore and Henry Dee, were kidnapped outside Meadville, Mississippi by a gang of thugs, members of a Klu Klux Klan klavern, who beat the two young men...

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about what liberal/progressive blogs really do bring to the table in terms of advancing a progressive and liberal agenda; that is, an agenda that favors the poor over the rich,...