This Bad Week in News: Are People Created Equal?
Too many bad things happened this week. Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine, Israel began a ground mission in Gaza, and children at the southern border of the United States...
View ArticleThe U.S. Must Lead on Climate Threat
During a Congressional hearing this year, Texas Rep. Joe Barton (R) invoked Noah's Ark saying, "I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an...
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Obama's Immigration Dilemma
President Obama faces a dilemma on immigration reform, and it goes beyond the current problem of children at the border. If he sticks to his announced timetable, Obama will act in some way on...
View ArticleGun Safes and Politics
The August 2014 issue of Guns and Ammo has an interesting article on a new generation of gun safes. While this probably is not of interest to many of my readers, it tells a bit about politics as well....
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The Fraudulence of the Republican Party, and the Adverse Shift in the Balance...
In recent years, I've been deeply troubled by an adverse shift in the balance of power between good and evil forces in America. The evidence for that shift is plain to see in the damage that's been...
View ArticleThe Children at the Border Are... Children
As I listen to the news coverage about all the unaccompanied minors coming from Central America, what I mostly hear is worry about how to house them, how to handle the legal ramifications, how to pay...
View ArticleStacking Up the BRICS
Why five strange bedfellows should make the United States pay attention, at least for a little while Shakespeare wrote "misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows." However, for the BRICS, it...
View ArticleWhat Would You Do?
There is a TV show called "What Would You Do?" It shows people in circumstances that require others to step in, intervene, do what is right. Some people do. Others walk away. I always wonder what I'd...
View ArticleIn This Time of Immigration Debate
Tempers flare over the immigration debate. Voices cry far and wide, "Scarcity! Scarcity! Bar the gates!" There's only one voice that comes to mind, for me, when the immigration argument devolves into a...
View ArticleSame Song....
Politco recently wrote: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered a "comprehensive review" of the military health system on Tuesday night as The New York Times reported the deaths of two young patients who...
View ArticleThe World Will Not Forget These Girls. Not for One Day. Not for 100 Days.
Wednesday, July 23, marks a tragic milestone. It is the 100th day in captivity for over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls. For an adolescent with plans, dreams and ambitions, 100 days must seem longer than an...
View ArticleMississippi Cuts $1.3 Billion From Schools, Gives $1.3 Billion to Nissan
Mississippi has proved to us all that austerity, or the political ideology of "government living within its means," is a farce. All austerity means is taking money away from public services, and giving...
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Chalking Up Montana As A Democratic Loss
I had intended to write a column today to take an overview of all the close races for Senate seats. Every so often, I like to take a look at what the chances are for both parties to make gains in...
View ArticleNet Neutrality Debate Threatens 911 Emergency Services
While the net neutrality debate rages on across the blogosphere and peeks its head out again in Washington, D.C., much of the United States remains either ignorant of net neutrality or ambivalent. A...
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Hidden History Helped End 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
A reporter covering recent LGBT strides toward equality recently asked me, "Are you surprised at how fast things are moving?" When I replied that I think they're actually moving pretty slowly, he...
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This Week in World War I, July 24-30, 1914
Serbian army on the Stava River, Belgrade The Die is Cast: The Eastern Front On July 25, two days after receiving an ultimatum from Austria, the Serbian government ordered a full mobilization of the...
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Nigeria: Is Religion Used as an Excuse to Rape?
Whether you call the girl a "wife" or an "infidel," abducting and molesting her is still rape with religion used as a cover to justify carnal assault. One hundred days ago, Boko Haram, a diffuse...
View ArticleD'Souza's Shameful Treatment of Conservatives Highlights Need for a...
A few weeks ago I went to see Dinesh D'Souza's America: Imagine the World Without Her in hopes of viewing a film that would represent a significant intellectual contribution to the current policy...
View ArticleWill $650 Million in Genetic Studies Solve the Mystery of Mental Illness?
I am a great supporter of mental-health research but worry that it has lost its sense of proportion and is chasing the wrong priorities. The really glamorous stuff consumes almost all of the enormous...
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