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Good Bye Username and Password

There isn’t a damned thing safe anymore in cyberspace. Each day's news brings another horror story. Business and government are pushing aside the Russian mafia in efforts to remain #1 in giving away the secrets.

Finally, a Frank Assessment From the State Department

The president is afraid he will be made to pay at the polls. The Democrats are determined to make him pay. And yet (even in Henry Kissinger's time) the actual price in death and broken society, tears, grief and lives gone to hell is paid by those who always pay it—soldiers and the innocent among civilians.

After Pat’s Birthday

Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother Pat in 2002, and they served together in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Pat was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. Kevin, who was discharged in 2005, has written a powerful, must-read document.

At What Cost Victory and How is it Defined?

The war in Iraq is a dreary reality. We are there. The conflict and its resulting political swampland has proven to be a fraudulently conceived disaster. But the move against Saddam Hussein, once made, was not a recoverable act and leaves us damned if we stay and damned if we leave.

Rhymes With Hobbyist

It’s just so much fun to watch the big-time as well as the small-fry congressmen try to keep from drowning just three weeks before elections. They’re all in the water, flailing away to stay afloat. Sharks are circling, but Jack Abramoff’s in the boat and they're all afraid to climb in with him.

Promoting Peace, a Hope at a Time

In an astonishing moment of clarity, the Nobel Peace Prize was given this year, not to the current excuse for Henry Kissinger, but to a man who understands the very basis and structure of peace.

Mike Chertoff Invites You to Pick a Target

The tragic story of Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle’s plane crash into a New York City highrise, painful as it is to his family and friends, is not about Cory Lidle.

The Difference Between Winning and Watching the Other Guy Lose

The Impossible Dream is fast replacing the American Dream. Which is why the country must invent a new political party to replace the aging and toothless Democrats. We can do better and vote for change are meaningless phrases by a party bankrupt of solutions.

A Little Song, a Little Dance

My old daddy would boil to see what these neo-con-men have done to his beloved Republican Party. My party as well, until they left me drop-jawed in the Reagan years, trying to recognize which shell covered the pea of our nation’s greatness.

Seeing Things, Hearing Things, That Only He Can See and Hear

Keith Olbermann nailed it. He is perhaps the only TV commentator with either the courage, the independence or the vocabulary to point out the difference between what this president hears and says against the reality of what has been heard and said.