I like Obama, don’t get me wrong. But there are two things in particular that just drive me nuts every time he utters them.

Given the date, I thought it would be a good day to go over the differences between the two presidential candidates when it comes to The War on Terror. (If you were hoping that I’d discuss whether or not Senator Obama believes that Governor Palin is a barnyard animal, I’m sorry to disappoint.) [...]

I am constantly flabbergasted by how “common knowledge”, even and especially among experts in a particular field, can so often be so wrong. And I don’t even mean “wrong if you really know what you’re talking about”; I mean “illogical at face value”. I’ll start with a couple examples from football (it is [...]

I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating as the Democrats gear up for Foreign Policy Day at their convention: the Iraq War was a bad idea for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with WMDs.

Russia’s invasion of Georgia looks like it might be played out, finally. War kills a lot of people for no particularly good reason, and this one is no different. Russia is certainly playing the role of the bad guy in this conflict, as well they should. Georgia may have violated an old [...]

I’m back!
I’ll have a longer post later, but for now I wanted to note a minor campaign absurdity. Campaign commentators are complaining about the supposedly unfair treatment that the networks are bestowing on the Obama campaign. And let’s be honest here: they have a point. I don’t want to get into a [...]

Right now, the United States is an active participant in two civil wars: Iraq and Afghanistan.

I’m normally a big fan of John Stewart, and I also generally have a lot of respect for Ted Koppel. But I was bothered by something that the two of them said yesterday during Koppel’s appearance on The Daily Show. Koppel was promoting a Discovery Channel special that has yet to air on [...]

The GOP is trying to turn this election, in part, into a referendum on President Bush’s handling of the War on Terror. In particular, conservative pundits (cheered by both the White House and the McCain campaign) have attacked Obama for praising the response to the first World Trade Center attacks, bringing back the charge [...]

Due to illness and work, I’ve been reading quite a lot of history lately: Guns, Germs, and Steel; a book on the Vikings; and another on the Hapsburgs. And it occurs to me that one of the great fallacies of mankind is that we always think that time is slowing down and that we [...]