One of those "fun" but important online political arguments made me think about lies. What is OK, and what isn't? Here's my taxonomy of lies…

Today, somebody took a gun to school and killed 31 people. There isn't a single thing right with that sentence. It happened, though. Lucky…

Yesterday President Bush signed the military commissions act. Among other things it says that people who aren't U.S. citizens (like me) and…

There's a lot of discussion about the Iraq war, and the White House has succesfully framed the debate into two camps: finish the mission…

With the yesterday's passage of new detainee legislation yesterday, I lost my civil rights. If, in a law officer's judgment, I provide…