On December 29, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) filed an amended complaint in the case of its co-plaintiff, decorated combat medic Army SPC Dustin Chalker. The amendment includes a number of additional examples of the "pattern and practice" of unconstitutional promotions of religion in the military, but, most importantly,...

Back in 1990, when the U.S. deployed troops to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Shield, the defensive mission to prevent an Iraqi invasion of Saudi Arabia in the build-up to Operation Desert Storm, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf was faced with a problem that, as discovered by the Military Religious Freedom...

U.S. military involvement in entertainment productions is nothing new. This has been going on since the earliest days of film, with a collaboration between Hollywood and the government's Committee on Public Relations to produce a series of World War I films using footage shot in Europe by the army's Signal...

Reading an article in The Washington Post last week speculating about who will and won't be retained in the incoming administration's Defense Department, I was quite alarmed by the possibility that Preston "Pete" Geren might be kept on as Secretary of the Army.

In 2004, Geren participated in the infamous...

Here at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), we get countless complaints about religiously-based mental health and counseling programs, which, over the past few years, have been systematically replacing proven psychological and medical approaches to a multitude of issues faced by military personnel. I've seen so many truly insane,...

Just over a year ago, Sgt. Brian Kresge of the website Jews in Green had nothing but praise for Mikey Weinstein, founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF). Kresge even made a point of noting, in the introduction to an interview he had done...

Yes, folks, as our nation celebrates the election of its first black president, there is a statue on display in the U.S. Capitol honoring a white supremacist -- North Carolina Governor Charles Brantley Aycock. This statue, added to the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall collection in 1932, immortalizes in stone a...

Violations of IRS regulations prohibiting 501(c)3 tax-exempt organizations from endorsing candidates and attempting to influence the political process were rampant in this year's election. These violations, however, are likely to be forgotten now that the election is over, and I, for one, am determined not to let this happen. So,...

Because the majority of my work has to do with fighting the religious right in one way or another, the first thing that pops into my head when seeing the names Michele Bachmann and Robin Hayes is the Congressional Prayer Caucus, the prayer group founded by Congressman Randy Forbes...

A teacher in Mifflin County, PA has reportedly shown the fear mongering, anti-Muslim propaganda film Obsession, recently distributed to 28 million swing state voters, to her class at Indian Valley High School, warning the students that if Barack Obama is elected, some of what they saw in the film...

The night of the vice presidential debate, I started writing a piece about Sarah Palin's utter cluelessness about the authority given to the vice president by the Constitution, but was forced to put it aside because other things came up that I had to deal with first. By the time...

An October 3 article from the Dayton Daily News, titled "Bloggers call mosque attack hate crime," not only continues the paper's attempts to minimize the attack that occurred on September 26 at the Islamic Center of Greater Dayton, but singles me out as a blogger who sparked the characterization of...

Friday, September 26th ended a week in which thousands of copies of Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West -- the fear-mongering, anti-Muslim documentary being distributed by the millions in swing states via DVDs inserted in major newspapers and through the U.S. mail -- were distributed by mail...

As recent court rulings have shown, a nearly sure-fire tactic for getting away with displaying the Ten Commandments in public schools and other government buildings is to make this list of religious edicts part of a larger display that includes secular historical and legal documents. In South Carolina, a bill...

In the past year and a half, two of the Islamophobic fear mongers featured in Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West -- the politically useful anti-Muslim documentary currently being distributed by the millions in swing states via DVDs inserted in major newspapers -- have been invited to speak...

She's gotta be kidding!

Check out the latest addition to the Alaska Army National Guard homepage -- a video of commander-in-chief Sarah Palin in a flight suit.

Alaska Army National Guard homepage before Palin's commander-in-chief-ishness was questioned:

Alaska Army National Guard homepage now:

With all the attention being given to the radical fundamentalist brand of Christianity espoused by churches like that of Sarah Palin -- a brand of Christianity practiced by a minority of American Christians -- I'm extremely happy to be able to write something about an organization that represents the views...

Hockey mom Sarah Palin got a great reaction during her convention speech with an unscripted joke (which she also used somewhere else the day before) addressed to her fellow hockey moms. Noticing the "Hockey Mom" signs being waved in the audience, Palin quipped:

"You know, they say, the difference between...

For those who don't know who Lt. Gen. Robert L. Van Antwerp is, he's the Commanding General of the Army Corps of Engineers -- the guy who's been in charge of repairing the levees in New Orleans for the past sixteen months. He's also one of our military's most prolific...

After reading Douglas MacKinnon's post here a few weeks ago about his latest release, The Apocalypse Directive, I had to read this book. I don't get a chance to read many novels. Almost all of my "leisure" reading over the last five years or so has been work related...