The Other NRA

This nation has been run by a powerful gun lobby for the last sixty years, and it isn’t the NRA.

Bush’s Business Plan for Iraq

Okay, so we’ve got a nice booklet and another posturing speech outlining the “Plan for Victory” in Iraq. Fair enough. We’ve heard these arguments before…many times. Now that Rep. Murtha has opened up the debate, the airwaves are bristling with electronic chatter about the mission, if and how we win, and if and how we [...]

Why We Fight

Why we fight. It’s an old argument, made time and again, to explain why nations must go to war. Throughout the 20th Century, those in war-making positions have had to do their best to create the circumstances conducive to war, or have extolled the virtues of war, or Cold War, to the washed and unwashed [...]