Arianna Huffington succinctly explained why. Withdrawing our troops from Iraq does not mean abandoning Iraq. Withdrawing our troops from Iraq does mean eliminating the insurgency’s best recruitment tool. To win in Iraq, we need to leave Iraq. To win, we need to stop being the issue. To win, we need…
Part I: What's really in the Bible? Although I have regularly picked up my King James Bible, I haven't had the stamina to plow all the way through. Kudos to the authors of the "Skeptic's Annotated Bible." We know they really made it to the end because they left proof…
Bill Moyers thoughtfully analyzed this distinction in tompaine.com. He describes the access our legislators give to special moneyed interests: The total spent per month by special interests wining, dining, and seducing federal officials is now nearly $200 million. Per month. Moyers writes that this huge legalized bribe is "a small investment on the return,"…
Many people think that they are motivated to act morally by reference to a set of external rules. Not me. Although rules direct our attention to various problem-solving strategies, there are so many rules (and so many interpretations of rules) that people can easily "justify" almost any behavior by reference to…
Speaking about the lack of hard factual international news reporting by our nation’s major news outlets, Ted Koppell stated the following as part of his speech to the Overseas Press Club (where he received the President's Award): They have almost surrendered even the pretense of civic responsibility. That is not just…