4,645 days have passed since Operation Enduring Freedom was launched in Afghanistan in October of 2001. Over that period of time, 3,453 coalition soldiers and 21,000 Afghani civilians have been killed while the United States government has spent more than $727 billion on what is far-and-away… Read More ›
I am a Jew. I was confirmed in the Episcopal Church, attended a Jesuit college, know The Lord’s Prayer and The Nicene Creed by heart and have never been inside a synagogue for any other purpose besides watching a friend… Read More ›
While it is never expressly said, our foreign policy and media coverage convey it clearly enough: you only matter if you matter to us. The world is filled with pestilence and draught and war and famine and the United States… Read More ›
From one body to the next there was little in the way of variety; nothing to suggest that what had happened here was anything less than slaughter. Some of the corpses had been shot through the temples, others through the… Read More ›
All too often, members of the American punditry mistake the unfortunate or the coincidental for the ironic. For example, Washington Times Communities contributor and pro-lifer Paul E. Rondeau recently penned an article in which he described the, “titanic irony” of… Read More ›
If you were hoping that the world’s youngest and fluffiest head of state would prove himself to be less of a caricature of a Bond villain than his demented father, I think you can stop now. Kim Jong-Un, the 29… Read More ›
I will be the first to admit that I am woefully ignorant when it comes to the intricacies and day-to-day developments of the conflict in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. With the exception of major events like the recent hostilities… Read More ›
During his two terms as a Republican Senator from the state of Nebraska, Chuck Hagel voted for The Patriot Act, supported the invasions of Afghanistan & Iraq, and okayed both sets of Bush Tax Cuts. Hagel endorsed the military’s Don’t… Read More ›
Some days are just too weird for words…or at least too weird for long sequences of words put together in a linear and grammatically correct fashion. Today would happen to be one of those days, in no small part because… Read More ›
During the honeymoon period following President Obama’s 1st successful bid for The White House, there was a great deal of talk about the former Senator from Illinois surrounding himself with a “Team of Rivals” as Abraham Lincoln did when he… Read More ›
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