The official number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq recently topped 3600, with total casualties (dead or injured) exceeding 30,000. So-called "collateral damage" has also killed more than 70,000 innocent Iraqis, or about twenty times the number of Americans killed. If we apply this same 20x factor to total U.S. casualties, then we would…
When the Bible talks about people being resurrected, to what point in their lives are they restored? Is it to the moment just before they die? The Bible seems to suggest this, at least with the resurrection of Jesus. But, if that's so, then what about people who suffer from…
That's the phrase we keep hearing from the Bush administration about the troop surge in Baghdad. "It's too soon to tell," "Let's give the plan time to work," "Just give it more time...." It has all the makings of a Biblical prophesy: peace will eventually return to Baghdad, the only…
A conservative federal appeals court harshly rebuked the Bush administration's anti-terrorism strategy Monday, ruling that U.S. residents cannot be locked up indefinitely as "enemy combatants" without being charged. Perhaps not surprisingly, the lone moronic dissenting vote was cast by a Bush appointee, on the bizarre rationale that American residents should be treated as…
We have already discussed how much one trillion dollars would buy. Well, the Boston Globe did its own story about this subject, using the more conservative figure of $456 billion (the estimated cost by September). My favorite is where it says $456 billion could have fed and educated the world's…