Member of Philadlephia Regional Anti-War Network (PRAWN), Delaware Valley Veterans for America (DelValVets) and First United Methodist Church of Germantown (FUMCOG).

Retired (Medical discharge) PN3, USN, 1991-2001.  Five years in Norfolk, VA; two years in Gaeta Italy and a year and a half in Pensacola, FL.

History major back in college, still read history stuff for the fun of it. Very highly useful major for parsing propaganda.

Affiliations

Philadelphia Regional Anti-War Network, Delaware Valley Veterans for America

Member Since

Dec 6, 2007

Recent Posts

WaPo editorial misinforms

Really good history of Iraq War for people that know absolutely nothing about the issue. Not very enlightening for those who do.

Re: "Road Map in Iraq" Nov 30This piece appears to be designed to appeal to what political writers call the "low-information voter." First of all, it is true that President-Elect Obama has not "acknowledged ...

James Gilligan, Rumsfeld & IVAW

Interview with IVAW member James Gilligan. We talk about the 2003 advance on Baghdad and his dealings with the peace movement.

Had an interview with a fellow veteran James Gilligan*, who doesn't make the claim that he's ever actually really been in combat, at least not as people normally define the term. Gilligan was in the initial invasion of Iraq in March 2003, he's ...

Bizarre anti-Obama arguments

What exactly are some people complaining about when they say Obama isn't delivering "change"?

I had my letter published in my local newspaper and went to the letters page online to see if there had been any comments concerning it. Nope, but I was struck that there was a commenter who was obviously a conservative and/or a Republican who ...

Review of WS piece on Missile Defense

Does the WS piece supporting the idea of Missile Defense (Star Wars, SDI, etc) give any reason to think that such a project will ever be feasible?

The Weekly Standard did a piece urging President-Elect Obama not to cancel the Missile Defense project, a project that has cost the US, since the Bush Administration took office, about $60 billion. Question: ...

WaPo frets over allegations of liberal bias

The Washington Post Ombudsman is very concerned over what she describes as "liberal bias," but it's not clear that there's really a problem there.

The problem with Deborah Howell's latest attempt to reassure conservatives concerning that ol' boogeyman "Liberal Bias" is that she doesn't appear to understand what journalism is all about. Is the ...