Last Friday marked the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a day that Franklin Delano Roosevelt told the American people would “live in infamy.”
Sixty-six years later, I’ve been thinking about American history, but also about another, more recent day when America was caught unaware, and about the lack of progress on national defense [...]

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Earlier this week I wrote about a soldier from Pennsylvania who was wounded in Iraq, only then to be handed a bill by the Army demanding repayment of his signing bonus. (Though my original post bears today’s date, I drafted it last week, before this site was ready for broadcast). After KDKA in [...]

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With the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War fast approaching, it’s fair to say that America’s military families have been handed a raw deal by the Bush administration and Congress.
Facing low pay, long and multiple deployments, and inadequate veterans’ services, our fighting men and women have shouldered the burdens of the war without complaint.�
Now comes [...]

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