Deep Thought

I had the following comment on a website I visit sometimes that caters mainly to conservative Christians. In particular, a poster back in 20...

American hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were sentenced to eight years in prison by Iran today after being convicted of spying. The pair ...

Imagine you are a young adolescent girl, 11, 12, 13 or 14 years old. Your father, whether out of desperate hunger of simply out of greed (do...

Well, apparently not . Pasta or chicken? As in, what meal would you like on your flight back to the United States? That's what Eric Pete...

Lately, it seems that the righties want to talk about Iraq. They claim that since the surge worked, that somehow that vindicates all the cra...

If nothing else, you know we are winning the battle of ideas when even the Bush administration is reversing itself at a dizzying pace. Not l...

Remember when Barack Obama said that he was willing to meet unconditionally with foreign leaders we don't get along with, including Iran...

A lot has been made about Barack Obama's supposed 'flip-flops.' First there was the campaign finance issue, when he reversed a p...

One year ago today, Sergeant Christopher Gonzalez died when his unit was ambushed near Salmon Pak, Iraq. I attended his funeral a few days l...

During the recent discussion on Iraq and Afghanistan, we are being confronted again with a hard, cold reality-- that we simply do not have e...

It is exceedingly rare that I agree with George W. Bush, and even more so that I agree with him or say he is right about anything pertaining...

In 281 B.C., king Pyrrhus of Epirus (an island off the coast of Greece) landed in Tarentum with an army of about 30,000 men and 20 elephants...

The State Department has promised immunity for Blackwater employees involved in last month's shooting in Baghdad that left 17 Iraqis de...

Yesterday at a campaign event in North Hampton, Iowa, Hillary Clinton had a testy exchange with an anti-war member of the crowd. Referring t...

Hot on the heels of the alleged killings of over 20 Iraqi civilians by mercenaries employed by Blackwater USA, comes a new allegation, that ...

Last December I wrote a post called, Don't buy into George Bush's Iraq trap . In it, I discussed what were then new plans for a so-c...

We know (and it has been documented ad nauseum) how there has been little or no accountability for money that has been sent to Iraq-- you kn...

Many of the other Democratic candidates have recently explained that they support leaving some troops in Iraq in order to prevent genocide, ...

Once again (in what we are learning is a story which seems to get worse every time we get closer to the truth,) we've learned some distu...

Today President Bush said once again that we have to 'win' in Iraq. Leaving aside the fact that we've grown tired of this stale ...