Dear Homeland Security: Why Don't I Feel Safer?
In the years after 9/11, Americans faced a domino effect of diminishing rights, beginning at the nation's airports. In the early days, restaurants near boarding gates offered forks and spoons but no...
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Give War a Chance?
Wars always seem to produce inappropriately cute phrases in American culture. These usually have origins in military shorthand and are then picked up by politicians and pundits and used ad nauseam...
View ArticleFeminism Is On Life Support But We May Be Able to Save It
The Democrats have decided they're going big on "women's issues" this election year. Last week Hillary Clinton, flanked by other female Democratic politicians, called on voters to make it a "political...
View ArticleOur Politically Polarized Supreme Court?
In a recent public appearance, Chief Justice John Roberts expressed concern about the extreme polarization and partisanship that have gripped the other branches of the federal government. He was...
View ArticlePresident's Strategy for Confronting Violent Extremism Is Unconvincing
President Obama's remarks to the United Nations General Assembly singled out "the cancer of violent extremism" in many parts of Muslim world as the principal global threat. But he failed to call out...
View ArticleMenu for a Hot Planet
In many ways the human race hit the skids when we stopped throwing spears and gathering berries. Once we started planting seeds and harvesting the produce, we grew shorter, fatter, sicker, and...
View ArticleForests Need Laws, Not Loopholes
Sitting in the towering United Nation's building on New York's east side, it might be hard for world leaders to picture a destroyed forest, but I know just how depressing the site is. In Indonesia, and...
View ArticleInside Job: How an Influential Group of Doctors Exerts Influence Over...
Imagine a scenario in which Exxon Mobil recommends to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) how much carbon dioxide that oil and gas companies should be allowed to emit - and the EPA approves...
View ArticleHolder's Legacy: Steering Away From the Drug War and Mass Incarceration
When it comes to criminal justice reform, Attorney General Eric Holder -- who announced today he will soon resign -- waged a revolution from within. Taken individually some of his work seems...
View ArticleGod Bless America: Let's Debate Acts of War
As I looked this morning at my bookshelf as the sun rose over the landscape of Central Texas I noticed two items stood side by side, the Bible and the United States Constitution. It made me pause and...
View ArticleIs Palestine Forgotten in Current War on ISIS?
When US Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets began their bombardment of Syria, it felt strange. Foreigners bombing a sovereign Arab country without the approval of its leadership produced few signs of...
View ArticleIf Jesus Never Existed, Religion May Be Fiction
As someone raised in a Christian country, I learned that there was a historical Jesus. Now historical analysis finds no clear evidence that Jesus existed. If not, Christianity was fabricated, just like...
View ArticleHow ISIS Is Using Us to Get What It Wants
"O crusaders, you have realized the threat of the Islamic State, but you have not become aware of the cure, and you will not discover the cure because there is no cure. If you fight it, it becomes...
View ArticleWatch Lists and the First and Fourth Amendments
If you don't know Ray McGovern yet, you probably should. You see, Ray just beat down, in court, Hillary Clinton, the State Department, and a small part of Post-Constitutional America. Who Is This Guy?...
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Climate Reckoning: My Own Private Coal Story
Four years after the publication of my memoir/history, Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland, I found myself sitting in the front row of an Illinois Environmental...
View ArticleIt's Time to Talk About Cuba
I fell in love with Cuba at my grandparents' dining room table. I always sat on the far right hand corner, to the left of my grandfather, who always sat at the head. We ate every meal on turquoise...
View ArticleWalk and Chew Gum? Yes We Can
The latest Middle Eastern incursion only serves as a distraction from the pressing issue facing mankind: namely, a fast approaching calamity the likes of which we as a species have never seen and are...
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America the Petulant: Land of a Thousand Outrages
Poor Americans. Even when there's enough authentic drama in the world to provoke the angst of our most composed of human beings -- what with metastasizing wars, repeated beheadings, climate change...
View ArticleYes, I Have a Dick Pic and Here's Why I'm Not Ashamed of It
As you probably already know (and I'm guessing many of you saw), several weeks ago a handful of Hollywood actresses watched in horror as intimate photos that had been stolen from their computers were...
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Imagine A Yankees Fan Forced To Root For The Red Sox. That's Obama's ISIS...
Next baseball season, make sure to attend a Red Sox game at Fenway Park, dressed in a Yankees jersey, and shout as loud as you can about how much you love the Bronx Bombers. See what happens. If you...
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