Read more
Restore the Sanity 2010
By Steve on September 18, 2010
I try not to blog too often on Jon Stewart and the Daily Show…else I would hardly blog about anything else…but when he announced his “Restore the Sanity” rally for October 30 in Washington DC,…
Read more
Conviction & Compassion: or What to do with my Democrat, Muslim, and Gay friends
By Steve on August 28, 2010
I recently had dinner with a new friend here in Hong Kong. We had been talking about different cuisines and I had been bemoaning the fact that my favorite Lebanese restaurant had closed. When I…
Read more
Tuesday’s Election Recap
By Steve on November 6, 2009
“The rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated” said a witty Mark Twain more than a century ago. Perhaps the same could be said of the Republican Party. Last night’s GOP victories for the Governorships…
Read more
Pelosi & The CIA
By Steve on May 21, 2009
Last month I wrote in a blog that U.S. Speaker Nancy Pelosi needed to be very careful with her talk of a “truth commission” in regards to the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” employed by…
Read more
Torture & The Democrats
By Steve on April 28, 2009
Last week in a press conference President Obama let slip for the first time that an investigation into the use of “enhanced interrogation” by policy makers in the Bush administration was a possibility depending on…