Commentary By Ron Beasley On the 8th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan it might be a good time to ask - whatever happened to Osama bin Laden?   I have always thought that he has been dead for all or most of those eight years and I'm ...

By Steve Hynd Thanks to the BBC, the missile defense debate can be greatly simplified. Here's what Bush proposed and what the neocons are hyperventilating over the ending of plans for: And here's the coverage of the AEGIS sh...

Commentary By Ron Beasley You hear the chant a teabagger events and town hall meetings - "keep the government out of my health care."  Of course many of those people are on Medicare but according to this report from the Kaiser Family Foun...

By Steve Hynd Doug Ross takes this from Obama: Whether, sort of in the aggregate, society making those decisions to give my grandmother, or everybody else’s aging grandparents or parents, a hip replacement when they’re terminally ill i...

By Steve Hynd News that former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was to lead the prestigeous weekly prayers at Tehran University had led some observers to wonder whether he would condemn Ahmadinejad's disputed "victory" in ...