Iran is in the news a lot this week because of several stories from the past about prisoners held there: This week marks the 35th anniversary of 52 Americans taken hostage and held for 444 days during the Iranian Revolution; Jon Stewart’s movie “Rosewater” is about to open — it’s about journalist Maziar Bahari being […]
James Risen is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who has uncovered many things our government has done in the name of Homeland Security that stretched (ok, broke) the limits of the law, including his revelations about warrantless wire-tapping by the NSA. For that, the Obama administration has been trying for years to force him […]
A friend asked a couple of days ago, “What is going on Israel and the Palestinians? I haven’t watched the news all week.” I answered, “Have you seen any news from that part of the world in the last 5,000 years?” He said, “Of course,” to which I replied, “It’s the same story, new chapter.”
This morning, I heard a reporter say, over video of Israel launching missiles, “Israel is on the brink of war.” Correction: anytime a nation launches missiles at another, it is already at war.
This morning on KTRS, I went on an extended rant about whistleblower Jose* Matthews, former head of psychiatry at the St. Louis VA Health Care Center, who testified before Congress last night about the backlash he’s gotten since uncovering how the staff hasn’t put in the hours necessary to care for patients but filled out […]
In discussing President Obama’s plans to pull almost all US troops out of Afghanistan in the next two years, as well as the Bowe Bergdahl story and the five Special Ops forces killed yesterday, we must consider whether our presence in that country for more than a dozen years was worth it. Not just in […]