Today I touch the memory of ordinary lives and extraordinary bravery. It's a day to honor those who serve my community, my state, my nat...

"[The conduct of 'Pastor' Terry Jones, organizer of 'Burn-a-Koran Day'] is utterly irrational. It's pathological. T...

"We thought about what would have to happen for us to call our event off. As we prayed about that, in the past we did have one idea. ...

The quote: "We don't train police officers to take knives away from people." (Chief Charlie Beck, Los Angeles Police Departm...

I'm gonna burn me some Bibles . Why? To send a clear message to radical Christian fundamentalists . I want every one of Jesus' wacko...

Memorial Day and Labor Day serve as the summer's bookends. The two holidays also define what we've come to call "parade season...

Assembling an array of EDC tools is a process, not an event. My personal choices have evolved (and will continue to evolve) as my awareness...

Ohio State's 2010 football season kicked off yesterday against Marshall -- on a Thursday night, of all things, which felt strange. It al...

It's useful , as Marines often say of themselves, to be able to tell the difference between chicken salad and chicken shit . Shortly aft...

"When it's all over, there's going to be one guy standing there with a bolt Mauser on top of a hill, with no armor plating on, ...

As I engage in some long-overdue personal definition and reinvention here, I've been doing less writing and more reading. I've certa...

I'm already on-record asserting that Glenn Beck is (probably) crazy. Still, I don't disagree with him categorically -- even a nutjo...

I don't remember exactly when I first heard these lyrics, but I do remember how I felt: He got up every mornin' While I was still as...

According to The Pew Research Center, 18% of Americans say that Pres. Barack Obama is a Muslim. In other wingnut news, an April New York Ti...

The whole "social media" thing generally gives me a rash. Every now and then, however, there's a case for redemption. One of m...

During the traditional White House Iftar held Friday evening, Pres. Barack Obama said , "As a citizen, and as President, I believe tha...

Take a look at this TV spot promoting Sen. Harry Reid's re-election campaign: For a moment, try to put aside the candidates and their p...

Free speech notwithstanding, two members of the U.S. House of Representatives have me wishing (again) that the Founders had expanded the Fir...

I was introduced to Bert, the very alert turtle, when I was in first grade. For a variety of reasons (not all of them good), this five-minut...

Despite the common assertion that we're "a nation of laws," often it seems that we've become a nation of sideshows . Some ...