William Boardman

One $100 million Air Force plane leaks oil, another bursts into flame Troubles never seem to end for the F-35 Strike Fighter. Not yet fully operational, the nuclear-capable fighter-bomber recently had different test versions either leak oil in flight or…

That sounds like American exceptionalism in its pathological form.  That’s largely because it IS American exceptionalism in its most arrogant pathological form. Remember Paul Bremer, 73, the Bush family caporegime who was the occupastion’s Presidential Envoy to Iraq? He was the…

What do patriot movement shooters in Las Vegas have in common with Virginia Republicans and Virginia Democrat Phillip Puckett?  They kill people. They just do it in different ways, with different degrees of effectiveness, and different intensities of news coverage. The Millers,…

This is a Special Guest Commentary by Gen. Victor Guerremonde, USA (Ret.)  transcribed from a recent talk titled “A Modest Proposal for Middle East Peace”Â before the Smarter Earth Society of Central Vermont All right, you people, listen up! The solution to…

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”Â  Astronomer Carl Sagan was fond of saying this when talking about the possibility of intelligent life existing elsewhere in the universe. Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld also used the expression in his own portrayal…