Double-crossing the Rubicon

As I write this I’m travelling to Central America for a two week work trip. Although I’ve been doing a lot of traveling lately, I would...

Back in October of 2013 I stopped putting up new posts on this page. Between a new job and a major death in the family I had other things in...

Many years ago, while working as a waiter, I was taught the secret to carrying a tray full of overfull drinks across a crowded room without ...

As a follow-up to yesterday's blog post , I wanted to add some additional thoughts, as well as mentioning a few additional news item...

The intractable conflict within Syria has finally reached a point where it is no longer possible for it to be ignored on the world ...

I'm not a big fan of the idea of intervention, but at this point it looks like it's pretty much inevitable. So, here's the s...

As I watched the hearing committee go back and forth over the circumstances surrounding the 9/11 Benghazi attack it became painfully...