General Tony Zinni
Tony Zinni is a retired four-star Marine general who served as commander-in-chief of Centcom. He was also one of the first to warn of the dangers of terrorism coming out of Afghanistan pre-9/11, and then opposed the invasion of Iraq.Today on KTRS/St. Louis, I talked...
Sand Art
This may be the most stunning piece of art I have ever seen created. Kseniya Simonova won "Ukraine's Got Talent" last week with her sand artistry, in which she portrays Germany's invasion and occupation of her homeland during World War II, which took the lives of one...
Monitoring Militias
The Southern Poverty Law Center has compiled new information on the rise of militias in the United States, and says they're at a peak not seen since the 1990s. Today on KTRS/St. Louis, Mark Potok (director of the SPLC's Intelligence Center) explained who these militia...
To What End?
When I heard about the bombings in Jakarta yesterday, my first thought was, what do these terrorists hope to achieve? Long term, I mean. If you look at the various terrorist acts in the last decade or two -- the World Trade Center, the Madrid train station, the hotels...
Leaving Iraq To Iraqis
Today on KTRS/St. Louis, I wanted to get some perspective from someone who served in this war on the US military handing over control of Iraq's major cities to their own security forces today. So, once again, I called on Paul Reickhoff, who had his boots on the ground...
Iran So Far Away
The best part of this story is the way Iranians are making sure that images of today's government-created violence are making their way out to the rest of the world, via YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. While not as huge as the coverage would be if western journalists...
Not So Open Government
Glenn Greenwald is outraged at the Obama administration's not-so-open government policy regarding those detainee photos:The White House is actively supporting a new bill jointly sponsored by Sens. Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman -- called The Detainee Photographic...
Who Served?
Gerald Seib has a piece in the Wall Street Journal bemoaning the diminishing number of military veterans in Congress. He compares the numbers to those of 30 and 40 years ago -- when you had a higher percentage of men in the Capitol, and they were likely to have...