Writers often romanticize their subjects. At times they even manipulate their readers. A book - or any piece of writing for that matter – is meant to provide a sense of completion. Sociological explanations are offered to offset the...
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01 September 2010
BANGKOK, Thailand -- American officials hoping to extradite Viktor Bout on Wednesday (August 25) were unable to fly the suspected Russian weapons smuggler to New York, because the U.S. added fresh allegations against him which must be...
31 August 2010
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam -- Cheap facsimiles of $100 bills waft in the tropical breeze, littering sidewalks with Benjamin Franklin's face.
Elsewhere, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon has become a gritty fashion icon, giving...
Elsewhere, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon has become a gritty fashion icon, giving...
30 August 2010
As news stories are leading those still aware of the war on Iraq to believe it's over, it was encouraging to see Busboys and Poets restaurant in Washington, D.C., packed Sunday evening for a four-hour forum on actions needed to actually...
26 August 2010
BANGKOK, Thailand -- American officials hoping to extradite Viktor
Bout on Wednesday (August 25) were unable to fly the suspected Russian
weapons smuggler to New York, because the U.S. added fresh allegations
against him which must...
26 August 2010
The soldiers of the US 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division hollered as they made their way into Kuwait. "We won," they claimed. "It's over."
But what exactly did they win?
And is the war really over?...
But what exactly did they win?
And is the war really over?...
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