Patrick Lawrence: Japan Reenlists as Washington’s Spear-Carrier
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost It is always the same when Japanese premiers travel to Washington to summit at the White House. Nothing seems to happen and nobody…
Post-Afghanistan, Can We Finally Give Peace A Chance?
William Astore, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and historian who runs the Bracing Views blog, takes a dim view (or is it a nuclear-bright view) of where this country…
Norman Lear: A ‘bleeding heart conservative,’ (part 2)
The 95-year-old television icon, who produced some of TV's most memorable comedies, including The Jeffersons and Maude, talks about politics and mortality,