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After an 18 year-old black male was shot and killed by a cop in the Ferguson suburb of St. Louis, the television coverage by CNN and MSNBC has been nothing short of appalling. Witness accounts and police accounts of what happened leading up to the shooting vary. The sensationalized...

Robin Williams' acting was equally convincing whether he was conveying the silly or the sublime. Truly one of a kind. I liked him best as Patch Adams.

Williams has been found dead in California: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robin-williams-dies-suspected-suicide-724724

I am not that cynical just yet. We have a moral duty to save as many innocent Iraqis as possible from slaughter by ISIS. In effect, Iraq has fallen under our protection. Obama's decision to withdraw from Iraq did not negate our obligations. Save as many as possible as quickly as possible...

Here's a link to a report filed earlier today by CNN's Ivan Watson: CNN Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com We own the mess in Iraq, we made promises to the Iraqi people. We must help those needing evacuation from Mount Sinjar. This is genocide happening in real time before our...

I've been watching CNN's coverage of the rescue of Iraqis stranded on Sinjar Mountain as reported by correspondent Ivan Watson. Can't offer enough praise for Watson and his crew whose dramatic images will have a huge impact on public opinion. I will provide a link to Watson's most recent...

Radical Islam is at war with Western civilization. It is very difficult for many Westerners to come to grips with this reality. Wishing it weren't so doesn't work. Most likely, it will take several high profile terrorist attacks with mass casualities to wake people from their slumber. Even...

When was the last time a bonafide standing army declared war against the United States directly? It is an irrational act. Any US president who refused to defend the US homeland would be removed from office in short order.

Neither Turkey, Iran, Syria nor Russia will confront us militarily. That's preposterous. No uniformed army in its right mind would do such a thing to themselves.

Help the Kurds establish a safe haven where religious and ethnic minorities can flee. Eventually, the West will confront Iran and Syria. It is inevitable. For now, save as many innocent Iraqis from slaughter as possible.

The United States doesn't have the luxury of looking away from this. We will be compelled to deal with ISIS. ISIS has seized control of the Mosul dam which sits upstream of 2 million people. The governments of Russia and Turkey are rational, they will not go to war with the US. ISIS is...

The Iraqi Kurds, if properly armed, are more than capable of dealing with ISIS. We have a good working relationship with the Kurds. They are fierce fighters but outgunned since ISIS now has possession of the military assets we left behind in Iraq. In essence, the United States has armed ISIS...

Reluctantly, I agree. Having disrupted what stability Iraq previously had, we now owe them some basic level of protection. Like it or not, they are now under our protection. Arm the Kurds so they can take on ISIS. ISIS is a savage menace not only to their fellow Muslims, but to Western...

I will ask the question a third time, does the United States have a moral obligation to protect ordinary citizens of Iraq from acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing and mass slaughter?

Germany and Japan are not under military occupation. Nor is South Korea. Yes, Germany and Japan were soundly defeated which is not the case with Islamic extremists in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the modern era of television, the US and other Western democracies are restrained by political...

In earlier times, the US left a residual peacekeeping force when wars were over. Think of the US military presence in postwar Germany, Japan and Korea. These peacekeeping forces worked precisely as intended. Regrettably, the current US administration chose not to leave residual forces in Iraq...

A female member of the Iraqi parliament made an emotional plea for help as her ethnic minority, the Yazidis, were fleeing to the Sinjar Mountains as ISIS threatened genocide. This woman's cry for help is credited with prompting the US military response to beat back ISIS by airstrikes...

A Blugrass version of AC/DC's Thunderstruck as performed by a Finnish band called Steve'n'Seagulls: Thunderstruck by Steve'n'Seagulls (LIVE) - YouTube Can't say I've ever seen the banjo played like this.

I was thinking more along the lines of immediate watershed. Rain filled streams in Haysi, Virginia fall on the western slope of the Appalachian Mountains making their way to the Russell Fork to the greater Big Sandy which flows into the Ohio River feeding into the Mississippi River which...