According to the Center for American Progress, the war is Iraq is costing $177 million per day, $7.4 million per hour, and $122,820 per minute. The Center has available a Cost of Iraq War Ticker that can be added to websites.

when he wrote in The Education of a Christian Prince: "It happens sometimes that princes enter into mutual agreements and carry on a war on trumpted-up grounds so as to reduce still more the power of the people and secure their own positions through disaster to their...

We have too many veterans. Mainly because we have had too many wars and interventions. On this Veterans Day let us not remember those in the military who "defend our freedoms" by invading other countries. Instead, let us never forget that it began as Armistice Day,...

Writing in 1968, Will Durant, in his The Lessons of History, says that "in the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war." And then this gem: "When the states of Europe freed themselves from papal overlordship and protection, each state encouraged...

Officer H, an "Intelligence Analyst," in responding to an article of mine that he did not name, said this: "It didn't change my belief in the thought that when I pull the trigger it is to save a life, not take a life."

1. What do you call it when a group of people take the law into their own hands and kill people without a fair trial? ~ A lynching What do you call it when the United States takes the law into its own hands and kills people without a fair trial? ~ Operation Enduring...

I hadn't looked at a copy of Mad magazine for over twenty years when, earlier this year, I came across this profound slam of Bush and his callous attitude toward dead American soldiers. After numerous technical difficulties, I now present it to those who (like me) are...

Have Republican Warmongers No Shame? They are now proud to be warmongers. This website is selling an assortment of Voting Republican Warmonger apparel, housewares, hats, and other assorted items. Here is a mousepad that Republican warmongers can use as they write...

I don't listen to the conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage very often, but I happened to tune in the other night and heard him basically say that a Sedition Act should be passed and that those who don't support the troops in Iraq should be placed in...