| Sep 9, 2013 | Peace / SecurityCan anyone say with a straight face that if President Barack Obama hadn’t asserted one year ago that the use of poison gas would be a “red line” for military intervention, we would now be discussing a unilateral U.S. missile attack on Syria? They can...
| Sep 4, 2013 | Peace / SecurityPresident Barack Obama wants Congress to grant him the power to go to war with Syria, for as long as and in any way he chooses. Now it’s up to the American people, as it was to the British, to say no — we don’t buy it. Even if Bashar al-Assad’s...
| | Peace / SecuritySo we’re going to war in Syria. Maybe. We won’t know for sure until Congress gets back from the vacation it’s taking from its other vacations. One can live in hope, however. What would autumn be without a fresh war in the Middle East to occupy us? I...
| Aug 28, 2013 | Food / FarmingThe Bible tells us that the Garden of Eden was heaven on Earth — until Adam ate that apple. Then all Hell broke loose. Now, Arlington, Texas, has updated this tale. At about 7:30 in the morning of August 2, a SWAT team of armed police agents, code enforcement...
| Aug 21, 2013 | Peace / SecurityThroughout the centuries people have killed each other in vast numbers for the very best of reasons — religion. Oh they’ve done it for other reasons too — money, politics, geography, skin color, revolution — but never with more enthusiasm than when the cause was...
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