Society

No grills to light, hot dogs to burn, shopping or flag waving. Just you and your taking some time with your thoughts.

In one sentence, the strategic narrative of the United States in the 21st century is that we want to become the strongest competitor and most influential player in a deeply inter-connected global system, which requires that we invest less in defense and more in sustainable prosperity and the tools of effective global engagement.

After the 2010 elections, with many governorships back in their hands, the GOP (a subsidiary of Koch Industries) got right to work on solving...

This weekend something happened in my life  that I was NOT prepared for; didn't expect and has shaken some of my beliefs to the...

Last Friday, there were State of Emergency rallies at most Los Angeles schools to protest the looming cuts to education in the city which...

Happy Mothers Day!

A little nugget of Anglo-Irish history.

I am an atheist, but what does that mean?

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” ~YODA       FEAR: Perhaps mankind's oldest and...

It's highly unlikely that Miss Trust Fund Brat was even remotely interested in what the President had to say about his budget plan in relation to the obscenity Paul Ryan's trying to hawk, or the state of the declining middle class She obviously isn't thinking of the masses of unemployed or underemployed, of people who've flattened their 401K's simply to get by