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04/25/2008 10:00:00
25 Apr 2008, In Observance of Anzac Day
for our true friends, down-under. 04/05/2008 14:00:00
"Yes, it was a good war," writes Richard Cohen in his column challenging the thesis of pacifist Nicholson Baker in his new book, "Human Smoke," that World War II produced more evil than good. 04/01/2008 13:00:00
He is purchasing thousands and thousands of weapons including 100,000 automatic assault rifles, high tech helicopters, and state of the art jet fighter planes form Russia. He is even negotiating to purchase nuclear submarines. 03/28/2008 13:00:00
False teachings and deception abound in so-called Evangelical Christian churches across this nation. These teachings are causing false, useless faith resulting in deaths, even of little children. These teachings must stop now. 03/24/2008 09:00:00
Together We Are Americans©
My eyes are filled and overflow for my brother. 03/11/2008 14:00:00
For more than two centuries, the political left has been preoccupied with the fate of criminals, often while ignoring or downplaying the fate of the victims of those criminals. 03/04/2008 14:00:00
I write these words with sadness and a profound sense of disappointment. I worked very hard to help elect Mark Sanford governor in 2002. I even persuaded my father to support Mark in a contested Republican primary, in what turned out to be my Dad’s last campaign. I did so because 02/29/2008 14:00:00
WASHINGTON -- In 1988, singer and songwriter Bobby McFerrin penned a Grammy-winning tune, "Don't Worry, Be Happy." When it comes to collecting intelligence on America's enemies, McFerrin's pleasant a cappella song is now the theme song for Democrats in the House of Representatives. 02/18/2008 14:00:00
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A closed-door caucus of House Democrats last Wednesday took a risky political course. By four to one, they instructed Speaker Nancy Pelosi to call President Bush's bluff on extending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to continue eavesdropping on suspected foreign terrorists. 02/13/2008 14:00:00
In spite of a presidential waiver, last week US District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper re-issued a January injunction against the Navys use of active sonar in anti-sub training off southern California, claiming it violates existing environmental statutes. Read Article ) 12/29/2007 12:00:00
Shamefully this is a normal thing in India and it needs to be stopped before it escalates. Four major towns in the state of Orissa, India are under a curfew to check the communal tensions between the Christian and Hindu communities. Eleven Churches have been razed to ground. 12/28/2007 14:00:00
The assassination of Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto reminds us once again that the mindset of the Middle East is rooted in the seventh century. 12/24/2007 14:00:00
WASHINGTON -- Outrage over the CIA's destruction of interrogation tapes is but one element of the distress about the agency by Republican intelligence watchdogs in Congress. 12/14/2007 14:00:00
Boulder, CO -- CIA officers who have been subjected to it have not been able to endure it for longer than 14 seconds. According to confidential CIA sources previously in communication with ABC News, it is the last stage of a progressive series of six “Enhanced Interrogation 12/12/2007 14:00:00
It is not just our marvelous military who saddle up and ride toward the sound of gunfire. When the heavily armed killer entered the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Jeanne Assam, a volunteer security guard, heard shots and immediately headed toward the gunfire.When the gunman, who had 12/12/2007 14:00:00
Objective, as well as subjective, opinions vary as to whether the United States should have fought terrorism by invading Iraq, overthrowing the Saddam Hussein dictatorship and now attempting to establish Iraq as a peaceful, mass-destruction weapons-free and democratic nation-state. 12/11/2007 14:00:00
People for whom indignation is a way of life -- and there seem to be an increasing number of such people -- repeatedly have outbursts of outrage whenever the police fire a lot of shots at some criminal. People who have never fired a gun in their lives, and have never had a split-second 12/11/2007 14:00:00
It is almost obscene to think that there are people in Bible oriented churches every Sunday who sexually abuse children; however, it is true even in evangelical and fundamental churches! Yes, Virginia, we have sexual child abusers in our best churches! I had read in mainline media that at least 30% of 11/30/2007 14:00:00
Perhaps you have heard of the “Flying Imams” lawsuit, brought on by an incident on U.S. Airways in November 2006. The lawsuit against U.S. Airways and the United States Government was filed by six Muslim clerics who claim discrimination because they were removed 11/20/2007 14:00:00
Which is more critical to the United States in the Islamic world -- that a government be democratic, or that it be a friend and ally in the war against al-Qaida and Islamic extremism? In the Bush era, the answer has seemed unequivocal. We are for democracy first. For democracy 11/13/2007 14:00:00
Every day, millions of Americans visit malls, ride trains and enter office buildings. Checking every one of them would be impossible, so a terrorist who's willing to die could detonate a bomb and kill many people virtually any time. 11/09/2007 14:00:00
Every Veterans Day we pay tribute to our fellow Americans who have served in the military. With speeches and ceremonies, we recognize their courage and valor. But justice demands that we also recognize that we should have far more living veterans than we do. All too many of our soldiers have died 11/07/2007 12:00:00
The paranoid's conduct is unpredictable and there is no "typical scenario". But experience shows that you can minimise the danger to yourself and to your household by taking some simple steps. 11/02/2007 14:00:00
Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., started something when he asked Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey whether he considers waterboarding to be torture. When the nominee declined to give a definitive answer, the matter cascaded into a confirmation-threatening imbroglio. 10/25/2007 12:00:00
Veterans Day Should Be Everyday
Veterans Day November 11th
When it was my time, I served. My sons served, because I shared with them the value and meaning of serving...today, I proudly serve our Veterans in the best ways I can. 10/18/2007 14:00:00
Writing as an empirical observer over a number of years and disclaiming expertise, this commentator continues to manifest concern as to the rather patently obvious Congressional, and occasionally Administration, limited interest in missile defense generally, offshore 10/17/2007 14:00:00
Oakland, California, continues to suffer the high crime rate, and especially the high murder rate, which has long afflicted that city. Judging by a recent speech by its current mayor, long-time leftist Ron Dellums, it can look forward to a future all too much like its past.Why is Oakland 10/13/2007 13:00:00
The war on Terror if.................... 10/12/2007 14:00:00
The continual droning in Congress about the Iraq War and the need for the United States to declare defeat and impeach the judgment of President George W. Bush and our top military commanders, such as General David Petraeus, highlights a deficiency in Congress which rarely is addressed.
10/07/2007 13:56:50
America can legally inflict fear in the heart of the enemy in the conduct of war on terror. Fear stopped our attackers on their track, rendering their plan to annihilate us, sterile and inoperative, at least for a long while. Today in the terrorist camps, the most feared man alive is President Bush.
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