The old cliche has rats leaving a sinking ship.  Southern Baptists aren't that smart and it seems they do intend to go down with their ...

Small town newspapers.  When I first moved here over 11 years ago, Little Boots was in the white house and although the fear machine was r...

Long before we had Steven Colbert with his espousal of conservative views that reveal trenchantly cynical commentary beneath, we had Petrol...

Make no mistake about it, what the insurgents are calling the War on Christmas is nothing but an assault on our religious freedom and like ...

Another day, another triumph for malignant stupidity. I have a filter on my e-mail program that deletes most anything that mentions the Pr...

A significant part of the Republican "message" has been that our secular laws derive from a largely mythical "Judeo-Christia...

"All Jews share a particular gene, Basques share a certain gene that sets them apart," said Thilo Sarrazin, a board member at Th...

It's something to give lip service to when you're proposing or conducting a war of aggression, preferably a hopeless, poorly organi...

I've had enough of American TEA to be able to say with confidence that it has noting to do with any tax burden, real or imagined. What ...

Legend has it that when the Nazis occupied Denmark, they ordered all the Jews there to wear yellow stars and that the King himself put one o...

I hesitate to make more of this than it really is. Middle School students aren't deep thinkers, if they're thinkers at all and if so...

On Sunday evening, when I first posted this article , I asked for a moratorium on new posts to keep the healthcare debate in the forefront....

Boy, the way Glenn Miller played! Songs that made the Hit Parade. Guys like us, we had it made. Those were the days! We should worry. There ...

After days of overcast skies, it was refreshing to be awoken by sunlight streaming through a porthole on a bright Sunday morning. It was ha...

I'm sorry I haven't posted here of late... I think I'm just more of a debater than a writer of original material. This piece did...

The truth is that "controversial" cartoonist Sean Delonas is a provocateur who really doesn't care about the limits of decency...