I've finally realized where I've been for almost the last two years. I'm in the midst of a really stupid comic book, but it's not made of paper, and it's not comic, and it's not ending! If you st...

For the crew in Washington, war is the end, not the means, according to an argument which would have been familiar to Thomas Merton. They want war. It's not that they want peace and a better way ...

This nation has become a theocracy, as proven by the absolute astonishment of the overwhelming majority, and their extraordinary virulence, when they hear that anyone might object to the state impo...

Alright, I'm back. I've recovered just a little from the impact of the item I posted below. Still I can make only a very few observations for now. Just how much free speech is "too much" free sp...

I just don't know how to tackle this one. It's simply beyond my comprehension, but it tells me that we really are doomed. Roughly half of Americans think the constitutional freedom of speech guar...

There are all kinds of cultural heroes, and Fred Plotkin belongs in their rank. Mr. Plotkin, 46, is one of those New York word-of-mouth legends, known by the cognoscenti for his renaissance maste...

The question is for America only, for Europe and the remainder of the world have maintained their responsibilities, in many cases with very advanced systems. Americans however have so confounded t...

Appearing to be railing against himself, the Shrub was back on the campign trail today. "We must not allow the world's worst leaders to develop and harbor the world's worst weapons," Bush said at...

[This is not going to be the biggest issue any of us have to deal with today, but, what the heck, we can't do important stuff all the time.] I did not know until this morning that this was the rea...

The Israeli government issued a statement thursday admitting its forces killed innocent civilians in Gaza. [four dead, eight wounded] But anyone who sees what is being done to every Palestinian u...