Democrats have to be careful about making any promises to improve the situation in Iraq. Rather, they should make the distinction between ch...

Perhaps no issue more squarely puts the neoconservatives into the camp of unAmerican than their opposition to the estate tax. Quite simply, ...

There are at least two ways to arrive at government regulation, programs, or spending. The first is as a result of experts conferring in pri...

A theory is comprised of a set of testable hypotheses. By contrast, an ideology is not subject to tests. For some reason, the world of scien...

Our founding fathers were Enlightenment thinkers, heavily influenced by the philosopher John Locke who was, in turn, heavily influenced by R...

The Democrats have taken back the House and Senate. For that I'm glad. Nonetheless, the 110th session of congress is certain to disappoi...

All around you is a sea of information. Some you can perceive and some you cannot. We're wired to hear things from one spectrum of the w...

The dada movement in the 1920’s was perhaps the most fascinating example of artists taking license to use consumers of art as the medium for...

Yesterday George once again authorized military training in Latin America. Why? It is to counter what is seen as a leftward movement in the ...

“Sometimes we confuse work ethic with love of what you’re doing.” - Jim Dietz, SDSU Baseball Coach, speaking of Tony Gwynn When I taught Cov...

George Bush must feel like a high school kid who threw a party because his parents are away for the weekend who has just heard them unexpect...

I find the state of the union speeches repugnant. Why? More applause than even great performers get during musical, comedic, or dramatic per...

American people are fairly pragmatic. The vote results in today's election are not a vote for liberals - most of the Democrats who are w...

I've heard liberals and conservatives express confusion about why supposed conservatives would support such large and sustained deficits...

Bush the younger has said that he wants his presidency to be like Reagan's, not his father's. He has erred terribly in his attempt a...

Years ago, almost everyone agreed that we should invade Iraq. Pundits, politicians and the common person all agreed. Today that agreement ha...

155 Iraqi professors of both sects, mostly moderates, have been assassinated since the 2003 invasion, the Hindu has reported. When things ge...

The growing gap between effective politics and effective policy has already cost us trillions and will get worse before it is corrected. The...

We live indoors. We walk outdoors from our houses into our cars, only briefly passing through the open air. We live behind walls and our nei...

I saw that Saw III was the top grossing film over the weekend. From what I've read, it falls into the category of the “can't be too ...