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...

Charles Krauhammer made the point most clearly, in his column for today: The Biden prophecy has come to pass. Our wacky veep, momentarily inspired, had predicted last October that ``it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama.'' Biden probably had in mind an eve-of-the-apoc...

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...

D id you watch it? What did you think? As usual, I think the new pres handled himself well. The guy's just chock full o' poise. I also think he made some good points selling portions of his stimulus plan -- particularly the green energy and medical records parts. And as usual, when I force m...

"You want to make sure you edit it in the right way," said Major Alayne Conway, who served as a U.S. military public affairs officer in Iraq. When preparing videos for media outlets and websites like YouTube, she said her goal was "something that is going to make Joe Six-Pack look up from his TV din...

"You want to make sure you edit it in the right way," said Major Alayne Conway, who served as a U.S. military public affairs officer in Iraq. When preparing videos for media outlets and websites like YouTube, she said her goal was "something that is going to make Joe Six-Pack look up from his TV din...

S omething that occurs to me whenever geopolitical boffins assure us, oh so wisely, that we're letting ourselves be distracted by a mere functionary when we listen to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, since as we all know, in reality, that Ayatollah Khameini is the guy in charge, as Roger Cohen does here... ...

Pt 1 - National Cathedral Message - Story of The Two Wolves copyright © 2009 Betsy L. Angert.  BeThink.org It was 11:22 Ante Meridian, on January 21, 2009.  I did as I rarely do.  I stood silently and watched television.  As one who listens to what is aired, and does so from another room, this ...