War Crimes and Conscience

Yesterday’s UK Daily Mail informs us that RAF doctor Malcolm Kendall-Smith has been sentenced to eight months in jail after being found guilty by a court martial of failing to comply with “lawful orders” after refusing to serve in the Iraq war. Kendall-Smith is said...

Terrorism and the Three Sillies

This weekend’s edition of Signs of the Times carries several important pieces that I would like to bring to everyone’s attention and then I am going to present a fable that I read as a child that will shed some light on our present situation. The first...

Four and a Half Years

Has anybody noticed that news isn’t what it used to be? What happened to the general up and down, back and forth, flow of events, both good and bad, that used to be our daily fare? It used to be possible to read the news and the good news somehow was able to...

Smokescreens, Snowjobs and Long Knives

There’s been a buzz on the net for the past few days that maybe, finally, Bush is going to get his comeuppance. Cunningham has been sentenced to hard time, Katharine Harris, the “President Maker”, is tainted by a related bribery scandal, Bush has...