Wow.  Day twenty of writing a new blog post each day during Lent.  I'm starting to believe that I can actually pull off this thing. Yest...

Oleksii Kyrychenko of Kiev, Ukraine took this photo of his nine-year old daughter.  He titled it "Girl with Candy": A few days bef...

This has been one of the busiest periods that I've been in for quite some time now, hence the lack of blogging as actively as I'd li...

My great-uncle Rob was a G.I. who served in the Pacific during World War II. But unless you were family you likely would have never known t...

I hate to say "I told you so" buuuuuuut ... For quite a long time now and most recently five days ago , I have argued that going t...

On this day, the Iraq War has officially drawn to a close . It began in March of 2003, lasting nearly nine years (more than twice as long a...

This is part of the PowerPoint presentation that was shown to General Stanley McChrystal and other United States military officers leading o...

Is there anything more pathetic than a person scrambling against time in a vain effort to ensure that history will be kind to him or her? Pe...