Republicans trying to find solid ground for opposition to the Democrats in Congress are criticizing what they call wasteful spending. When they actually do find wasteful spending, that criticism is justified. Often, though, they’re criticizing reasonable spending that benefits a lot of people....

Tis the season for military recruiting. Huge numbers of teenagers will be graduating from high school in just a few months, and those who aren’t going to college are especially busy trying to figure out what they’re going to do with themselves. US military recruiters try to take advantag...

Why hasn’t even one Republican co-sponsored H.R. 808, this year’s legislation to establish a Department of Peace? The legislation even has a clause promoting “faith-based” exchanges between nations, something I’d just as soon see taken out of the legislation, but the so...

Why do we have nuclear submarines? Nuclear submarines are nuclear in two senses: First, they have nuclear engines. Second, they have nuclear weapons aboard. In both senses, they’re damned dangerous. They’re damned expensive too, often costing several billion dollars each. So why do we ha...

It’s amazing how, whatever Democrats were against when done by George W. Bush, they’re in favor of when Barack Obama does it. When George W. Bush set up the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, using government money to support religious organizations, Democrats said it was unconstitutiona...

The Obama Administration has made a big deal about how hard it was working at its transition, and specifically, about how the White House web site had undergone a dramatic transformation to make it more useful to the American people. A proud article posted just one minute after Barack Obama became P...

People have been gushing about the inaugural concert held yesterday: “Oh my God! did you hear the We Are One concert? Bruce Springsteen and Pete Seeger were on stage together! It was so awesome!” So that’s the change that Barack Obama was going to bring to Washington D.C.? Better i...

At the beginning of the fighting, Rowan wrote of the equal stupidity of the Israelis and Palestinians in the current conflict between the two parties. He’s got a good point - both Israel and Hamas have proven a boggling ability to repeat bloody mistakes over and over. However, the damage in th...

I remember, since the time of Ronald Reagan, how Republicans have been busy putting down the way that government does business. That’s an insult to the American people, because, in our democratic system, the government is a representative of the people. What the Republicans have been saying, e...

Nouri al-Maliki has had his own kind of Mission Accomplished moment. Just one day after Maliki declared that terrorism was defeated in Iraq, a wave of attacks swept Baghdad. There were also attacks in Baqubah and Diyala. Also in the news from Iraq, photographer Zoriah Miller, one of the last partici...