Peace activist Medea Benjamin , author and co-founder of CODE PINK , gave a presentation last evening at the Coffee Underground . This was i...

Political prisoner and free-speech hero Bradley Manning has been held under inhumane conditions for over 1000 days , and I am hoping this no...

This is like something from one of us crazy conspiracy theorists. Seriously, you can't make this stuff up. From Chris Matthews at ...

At left: My father, who was not a fake veteran. I first started reading blogs in 1998, when the USA was still at relative 'pea...

From LOLCATS, this comic reminded me of this hapless incident I wrote about a couple of months ago. (You can click to enlarge.) ~*~ ...

Developing story, just breaking statewide and nationally. The cynic in me wonders if this is all a deliberate PR effort to make Nikki lo...

At left: Pfc Justin Whitmire , age 20, upstate soldier killed on December 27th, only 19 days after arriving in Afghanistan. I ha...

Photo from Charleston City Paper . I went to Charleston Saturday with Green Party members, right after Hurricane Irene decided to spar...

I haven't been too sure about what I should write. Except for this: My apologies to the rest of the world for American interventionism...

As a veteran of the Watergate era, which I obsessively studied as a young pup, I am so deeply cynical and skeptical of our government, that ...

A rather long time since I did an Odds and Sods post, so here we are. I've dipped my toe back into the waters of Blogdonia with great t...

Comrade Physioprof 's witty post titled Rejection of Reality in its entirety: Rational response to terrorism necessarily includes givin...

Tonight, as President Barack Obama makes a mockery of his Nobel Peace Prize and decides to escalate the Afghanistan War, I take formal leave...

Senator Lindsey Graham during a town hall meeting at Furman University in Greenville, October 12, 2009. Photo by Patrick Collard of the Gr...