On 8 July 2003, in the middle of the night, a squad of 13 guys led by me landed on the runway of what had been called, until very recently, ...

I always respected my Dad as an educated man, but at some point, he turned into one of those cranky Republicans completely blinded by an abj...

There is a constant drumbeat from the right comparing Obama to Hitler. I mean, let's ignore the fact that Obama's signature legislat...

As a side note, I honestly intended to send this out. Unfortunately, I found 6 Joshua Bostons in Kentucky, two of whom were in Louisville, a...

Speaking as a veteran with two tours of the Middle East, I think I should mention just one small point to our friends on the right wing.

Now, remember, children. Here's how it works. This is something you should make fun of. This is something you should not make fun of...

So I hear these two guys talking on the radio. It's a conversation on the Amateur Radio 20 meter band, so half the world could be liste...

It seems to me, anyway, that if somebody had the " Google problem " that Santorum does, he might just back off a little. You kno...

OK, let's be real. What is the effect of years of anti-Muslim bigotry being spewed, screaming about "sharia law is taking over!...

Keep saying it until it's true - that's Fox's other motto, the one you'll only hear in the board room, but you'll see i...

I remember reading Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon many years ago. It's about an old Soviet apparatchik fallen from grace and ...

"I'm not in politics, I'm in ratings. We're winning" -Roger Ailes, Chairman, Fox Television Stations Group - It...

"and how much more falsity is still necessary to me that I may therewith always reassure myself regarding the luxury of my truth."...

According to the Foxspeak dictionary, a school of thought is defined as a scheme, usually by Roger Ailes or Rupert Murdoch that they wish t...

What the hell Barack Obama was thinking when he appointed Dana Perino to anything at all, I don't know. Raw Story says, with a bit o...

I haven't posted in a while, having been preparing for and then recovering from a rather ill-conceived and harrowing nautical excursion ...

"Be warned - - Obama has started!!!!" screams the e-mail. The boundary between hyperbole and hysteria may be blurry and undefine...

Election Season 2008 has yielded a bumper crop of lies and deceptions that have choked out every plant in the garden. Worse than weeds, the...