If you don’t watch bloggingheads.tv you really are missing out. The basic format is the familiar, two people with opposing views debate but the genius of bloggingheads.tv is that the debaters try to seek common ground rather than score weak, … Continue reading →

Peggy Noonan is on form today in the WSJ. America so often gets Iran wrong. We didn’t know when the shah was going to fall, didn’t foresee the massive wave that would topple him, didn’t know the 1979 revolution would … Continue reading →

One of the reasons I read conservative blogs rather than liberal ones is to get a different take on the current situation. Most conservative blogs have simply gone off the deep end of criticizing every little thing that Obama does … Continue reading →

The law wants things to be completely legal or completely illegal while morality is rarely so black and white. Continue reading →

I wonder what the change is relative to 2004?

“The United States is a country that takes human rights seriously. We do not torture. It’s against our laws and against our values. And we expect all those who serve America to conduct themselves accordingly, and we enforce those rules…America … Continue reading →

Lawrence Wilkerson on Cheney Third–and here comes the blistering fact–when Cheney claims that if President Obama stops “the Cheney method of interrogation and torture”, the nation will be in danger, he is perverting the facts once again. But in a … Continue reading →

I recently finished Michael Shermer’s Science of Good and Evil and reviewed it on Facebook. I have been enjoying Michael Shermer’s blog and writings in Skeptic magazine for a while now. His interviews with creationists are particularly spectactular. This book? … Continue reading →

Richard Armitage on the Bush administration’s decision to depart from the Geneva Conventions.