Pardon My Politics

In his speech on March 26 at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, Senator John McCain gave his Foreign Policy speech. Not surprisingly, nothing in his speech included an America that conservatives could embrace. McCain made it quite clear, that a conservative, values friendly, sovereign America is not part of his world view. What many [...]

With the 2008 Democratic Pennsylvania primary looming, how will working-class of Bethlehem, PA vote?

As story after story is written about the race issue, Geraldine Ferraro and Rev. Wright, I have held still to see where we would go with it. It didn’t take long to flush out the bigots and rRacists from both sides of the fence. As much as we don’t want it to be, this election [...]

Most of the debate about the government “doing something” to help homeowners in foreclosure has focused on what it should do. What kind of program should be passed, what the role of the FHA should be, how the Fed can manipulate interest rates lower, and so on. But none of these arguments gets to the [...]

Nearly two months after historic elections led to the first peaceful democratic transfer of power in Pakistan’s 60-year history, a window of opportunity exists to stabilize the country. The challenges are immense and interrelated, and the dynamic situation in Pakistan requires immediate attention. The United States needs to work with Pakistan’s leaders and other countries [...]

It was not too long ago, when supporting old growth forests meant you were a left wing whacko who liked owls more than people. Of course one has never had owl cut them off in traffic, or believe in the stupidest things imaginable, so maybe one can like owls more. And before that if you [...]