This is where I part company with at least one group of folks claiming to be part of the Occupy movement: the senseless and distasteful idea of  “occupying” Iowa campaign offices.  There have already been some scattered arrests but I don’t think this part of the “movement” is going to go very far because it [...]

I first met Christopher Hitchens when we were both in our early 30′s  in the early 1980′s. Together we produced a day of fundraising for The Nation magazine on the local Pacifica station, I think it was in late 1981, and over the next three decades we remained as friends –  and as colleagues when [...]

There’s something about American politics and the way it plays out that is downright befuddling. Or, better said, aggravating. Maybe “insane” is a better descriptor. As you have probably heard, the big news story coming out of the recent GOP presidential debate is that Mitt Romney offered to make a $10,000 bet with Rick Perry [...]

The rise of Newt Gingrich as a very possible and I would say probable nominee of the Republican Party tells us many things. In a sentence: just about everything we’ve been spoon fed about and by the Republican Party over the last three years is little more than one heaping, steaming pile of shit. It [...]

A Chilean judge has indicted the former U.S. military group leader in his country for being linked to the murder of two Americans in the days immediately after the 1973 coup.  I am VERY pleased to say that the official indictment and request to extradite retired U.S. Navy Captain Ray Davis cites testimony I gave [...]