My Scotland, Our Britain, a Future Worth Sharing
Although we share the same language, religion, history and traditions and have no border disputes or evidence of discrimination, many Scots will vote on September 18th to secede from the United...
View ArticleI Won't Apologize for Being Muslim
The Benghazi quasi-controversy took an ugly turn at a recent panel on the issue conducted by the Heritage Foundation, when prominent anti-Islam activist Brigitte Gabriel decried "180 million to 300...
View ArticleObama on the Brink: War or Peace?
Once again, we are poised on the brink of a war that could violate US and international law. President Obama faces a critical decision: will he meaningfully pursue a peaceful solution -- even...
View ArticleNew Presidential Executive Order Proposed by Pentagon Strips Victims of Their...
Last Friday, President Obama signed an Executive Order amending the Manual for Courts Martial (MCM) that includes provisions that severely undermine essential protections for sexual assault victims in...
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Outrage! Where Is the Outrage?
What does it take for Americans to become outraged? There is a series of mass shootings, leaving dozens dead, and people are concerned, but nothing changes; no gun-related legislation is passed. Where...
View ArticleThe House Condemns the World's Poorest to Dirty Coal
The FY2015 State Foreign Operations spending bill that emerged from the House on Tuesday demonstrates a clear misunderstanding of the role of international institutions in promoting U.S. interests and...
View Article'All Eggs Shall Be Cooked' -- Rules That Treat Workers Like Morons
If you happen to pick up a copy of the Kansas legal code for the construction and administration of nursing homes -- which, admittedly, you probably won't -- here are some of the rules: *The facility...
View ArticleWhy John Walters Is Wrong About Drugs
John P. Walters, director of drug control policy under President George W. Bush, wrote on what he views as an inconsistency between libertarian philosophy and support for ending the war on drugs. He...
View ArticleJeb Bush -- A Formidable Candidate for President
OK, OK. To the Bush family, and particularly to former two-term Florida Gov. Jeb Bush: Don't worry. Let me start, up front, by saying: I would never vote for Jeb Bush for president. He is way too...
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The Food Safety Movement Grows Tall
Let us celebrate today the latest initiatives of our nation's growing food safety movement. Across the country, consumers are demanding the right to know what is in their food, and labeling of...
View ArticleA New Low for Dick Cheney
The United States is fully engaged in a long overdue conversation about our foreign policy and the goals and expectations we, as a country, have for one of the most volatile regions in the world. Iraq...
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For-Profit Corinthian Colleges on the Brink: Who's Responsible?
Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit company that operates career training schools, is in deepĀ trouble. Last week, the U.S. Department of Education, which has been providing Corinthian with aboutĀ $1.4...
View ArticleWe Are All Equal; And When We Are Not, It's Time to Step Up
On June 10, the UN Human Rights Council started a three-week session, where -- rumor has it -- a new resolution addressing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity might be...
View ArticleDenouement
Still in the Army in April 1975, I watched from the U.S. with raw emotion the end of that war. A war that arguably commenced as soon as the French were defeated at Dien Bien Phu had consumed our nation...
View ArticleSummer Heat Kills Inmates in Prisons, and That Needs to Change
Searing heat and suffocating humidity levels are upon us here in the Southern states. In Texas, residents know that summers are brutal, but while we may be proud of our ability to withstand such...
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Obama Ponders the Road Not Taken
"I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." -- Robert Frost As the...
View ArticleBig Data, Democracy and The Path Not Taken
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. Computer scientist Jennifer Golbeck's TED Talk, '"The Curly Fry Conundrum: Why Social Media 'Likes' Say More Than You Might Think," performs a...
View ArticleA Senate Campaign Interlude With Friends, Family and the President
As I write this, comfortably on Amtrak, homeward bound after two days in New York, I'm in a particularly pensive mood. Election Day will be over in seven days, and my long campaign for the Maryland...
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