Tea Party Should Attack Military Spending

Tea party activists from coast to coast are trashing big government generally, and big government spending in particular. They tick off ways that they think the government should save money. Stop the bailouts. No more earmarks. Repeal health-care reform, even though...

Downplaying the Mess of War

Honor those Who lives did give; But now who pays For those that live? The best part of America’s wars is that, except for limited attacks during WWII, all our conflicts have been fought on somebody else’s soil since the battle of Appomattox. This...

Fresh Thinking on National Security

Everyone wants America to be safe and secure. And our government has a wide array of tools for accomplishing that. We can use creative diplomacy to diffuse tensions. We can use foreign aid to tackle the problems of poverty and despair that make many people more...
Israel’s Flotilla Massacre: Made in the USA

Israel’s Flotilla Massacre: Made in the USA

(ISTANBUL)–When Israeli commandoes launched their pirate-style assault on the unarmed flotilla of ships carrying hundreds of humanitarian aid workers and 10,000 tons of supplies for the besieged Gaza Strip, killing at least nine activists and injuring scores...

Feisty Grannies Stand Up for Peace

How grand it was in Washington for Hamid Karzai. The corrupt, inept president of Afghanistan–whose regime is being propped up by 87,000 of our troops and a $7-billion-a-month bill from us taxpayers–got the red-carpet treatment in our nation’s capital...