Author: Steven D

Deaths of American troops in Iraq passed 100 for the month of April yesterday: BAGHDAD (AP) — Five U.S. military personnel were killed over the weekend in Iraq, including three by a roadside bomb in Baghdad, the military...

By FU, of course I mean that most eponymous of terms fashioned during Bush era, the Friedman Unit, named after Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, the billionaire pundit who never met a deadline for progress in Iraq that he...

There is certainly a lot of blame to go around for the recent Supreme Court decision upholding a ban on so-called partial birth abortions, a case which further chips away at the right to choose, and sets the stage for a possible...

Once upon a time, I tried to push my own small attempt at framing when I suggested we call the actions of Bush, the Republican Congress and various members of the “Conservative Movement” Un-American. It met with some...

It’s not often that I rely upon the Cato Institute to fact check a Democratic Senator, but then Joe Lieberman is a special case, isn’t he. Here’s an excerpt from his op-ed in the Washington Post today in which...