Milwaukee Buzz - Oct. 7, 2007
Indiana Jones and the temple of kaboom
As a middle-schooler, I wanted to be Indiana Jones. I was always digging holes in the backyard, hoping to find the long-lost trinkets.
Tags: Indiana Jones, Beloit College, Logan Museum of Anthropology, Pentagon, Afganistan

Politics - Dec. 14, 2009
Afghanistan Is Getting Worse
Afghanistan developments are grim. On September 2, a Taliban suicide bomber killed the nation’s deputy chief of intelligence, Abdullah Laghmani, and more than twenty others.             Laghmani helped lead the National Directorate of S...
Tags: Afghanistan, Obama, Gates, McChrystal, Pentagon, War, Taliban, Al-Qaeda

Politics - Dec. 14, 2009
"New Afghan Commander A Big Change"
Gen. Stanley McChrystal has been unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the new commander in Afghanistan, and has followed up immediately by granting media interviews. Both developments are very significant for reasons that reach beyond the rising levels of Allied troops and violence in that...
Tags: Afghanistan, Obama, Pentagon, War, McChrystal, Gates

Living - March 6, 2009
Gates Reverses Coffin Ban
          Without fanfare, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has reversed policy regarding photographing coffins bearing bodies of military personnel killed overseas. On the eve of the invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration banned such photography a...
Tags: Living, Nation, Foreign Policy, War, Pentagon, Iraq, Afghanistan

Politics - March 4, 2009
Blackwater Banned by Iraq and U.S.
            The government of Iraq has just announced that the private security firm Blackwater will be banned from that country.  The U.S. State Department has also declined to continue to employ the firm in that country.  &...
Tags: Blackwater, Foreign Policy, Politics, Defense, Pentagon, State Department, Iraq