Author: Steven D

My Take on the Cartoon Crisis

I haven’t said anything about the current controversy because I really didn’t feel I had anything particularly novel to say about the issue. However, having seen some of the comments in the threads here that...

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US Economy: Too Big to Fail?

The Bush administration’s newest budget proposal is out and as Loren Steffy, the Houston Chronicle’s business columnist, points out, it “is a trillion little pieces of fantasy”: WE will be out of Iraq...

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IRAN: China and Russia Want More Diplomacy

First story I ran across this morning in my daily google search regarding the “Iran Crisis” was this one from Reuters: BEIJING (Reuters) – China said on Tuesday the Iranian nuclear standoff could still be...

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The Inevitable Result of “Culture War”

The right is fond of bandying about war-like metaphors to explain and denigrate what they consider to be an evil agenda promulgated by “liberals”, atheists and all those who refuse to accept Jesus into their right...

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