The United States Senate, the most deliberative body in the world, this week affirmed,in a bold move, by a vote of 72 to 25 that
A recent attack through a full-page advertisement in the New York Times by the liberal activist group, Moveon.org, impugns the honor and integrity of General Petraeus and all the [...]
The Iraqi government said today that it would revoke the license of the private security firm BlackwaterUSA, due to the reckless actions of its employees. Blackwater is is best known for supplying the contractors who were killed in Fallujah — an event which sparked a major siege of the city costing thousands of lives. Lesser [...]
I just watched President Dopey deliver his latest missive on why we need to stay in Iraq. The entire logic of his speech was that since the military is fighting in Iraq; we need to stay in Iraq. All of a sudden it seems that our military is running US foreign policy. I got this [...]
I have been fighting a nasty cold for the past few days, so I have been a bit out of it. Anyway, while working today I made the mistake of listening to Gen. Petraeus’ testimony before the House. I was struck by the blatant duplicity and obfuscation of the report he offered. His, and his [...]
I don’t usually write about the situation in Iraq primarily because I feel that there are so many others who express my own feelings more eloquently then I seem capable of. Also, my views on the situation are a bit more pessimistic than those of most activists and pundits, and I have been told that [...]
Among conservative evangelicals there has often been a subtle argument that in order to defeat Islamic fundamentalist terrorists, Americans must adopt the same religious fervor seen in our enemies. The most overt display of this philosophy was seen recently in Jesus Camp, where children’s minister Becky Fischer remarked: “I want to see young people [...]
Twenty five years ago, growing up in a dying industrial city of the Midwest, I found myself involved with a group of homeless veterans, most of whom had served in Viet Nam. I cannot say that I befriended any of these soldiers – as they didn’t make friends, and barely tolerated one another [...]
