15 August 2015 Gov. Jeb Bush repeated one of the biggest falsehoods of our time during the recent presidential candidate debate: “we were misled (into the Iraq War) by faulty intelligence.” US intelligence was not “misled.” It was ordered by the real, de facto president, Dick Cheney, to provide […]
8 August 2015 All war is a crime. There is no such thing as a “good war.” As the great Benjamin Franklin said, “there is no good war; and no bad peace.” We are now in the midst of the annual debate over the atomic bombing of Japan by the […]
31 July 2015 The killing in Zimbabwe of a magnificent lion named Cecil has ignited worldwide outrage and disgust. It should. In my view, hunting for sport is murder. The perpetrator was Walter Palmer, a small-town dentist from Minnesota with a record of killing large animals with a bow […]
