Author: BobHiggins

Photo by Belize.com Over the last several years as more people, organizations and governments began to take the prospect of global warming and human influenced climate change more seriously there has arisen a kind of 60 cycle...

There is an ongoing debate over the closing of America’s most notorious detainment/torture center at Guantanamo and the legality and efficacy of using torture to extract “information” from detainees in that and...

Harry Truman in a “bipartisan” moment with Lauren Bacall, a staunch liberal Democrat. This is about as “bipartisan as Harry got.” Last week was exhilarating for Democrats and, judging by the international...

Fifty years ago today I was halfway through my sophomore year at WE Stebbins High, an almost completely segregated school in the almost completely segregated city of Dayton, Ohio, a town said at the time to be a southern city...

The Manhattan apartment building where Bernard L. Madoff lives on New York City’s Upper East Side. AP Photo by Brian McDermott What crime do I have to commit to get sentenced to house arrest at Bernie Madoff’s...