The Iraq War Is Finally Over

 The United States military officially declared an end to its mission in Iraq on Thursday even as violence continues to plague the country and the Muslim world remains distrustful of American power. In a fortified concrete courtyard at the airport in Baghdad, Defense SecretaryLeon E. Panetta thanked the more than one million American service members who have served in Iraq for “the remarkable progress”...

Thoughts On The Protestor | Time’s Person Of The Year

This year’s Time Person Of The Year is “The Protester“.  In a year marked by social upheaval around the world, I cannot think of a better choice. Yet there are those who believe this is the wrong choice because, as a friend of mine on Facebook said, “disrespecting authority is being celebrated”. Really? A statement like that intimates that we should all be good little worker bees...

Two Excellent Responses To Newt Gingrich’s Love For Child Labor

GOP front-runner du jour really stepped in it with his recent comments about poor kids and their in his mind lack of work ethic.  His suggestion that poor kids be put to work as assistant janitors in their schools has been met with a firestorm of criticism second only to that directed at Rick Perry’s pseduo-Christian homage to Brokeback Mountain political ad. Here are just two of the best responses...

No, Newt Gingrich Is Not Like King David

Yes, the ridiculous, bordering on asinine, comparisons of Newt Gingrich to King David are making the rounds in conservative Evangelical circles.  This isn’t by accident, my friends, it is by design.  My good friend Becky Garrison, author of one of my favoritest books ever – Jesus Died For This?, gives the skinny on the behind the scenes machinations behind this ridiculous nonsense in her latest piece...

If Obama Treated Israel Like Reagan Did, He’d Be Impeached

At least that’s what Chemi Shalev of Haaretz says. Imagine if Israel would launch a successful preemptive strike against a country that is building a nuclear bomb that threatens its very existence, and the American president would describe it as “a tragedy”. And then, not only would the U.S. administration fail to “stand by its ally”, as Republicans pledged this week, but it would actually lend its...