Tag: Steve Chapman

This undated photo posted on Monday, Nov. 4, 2014 by the Raqqa Media Office of the Islamic State group, a militant extremist group, shows fighting in Kobani, Syria.(AP Photo/Raqqa Media Office)

The U.S. goes to war without a clue, again

Steve Chapman · November 6, 2014 4:46 pm

Members of the Department of Defense's Ebola Military Medical Support Team use check lists during training at San Antonio Military Medical Center in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Ebola quarantines ignore experience and trample freedom

Steve Chapman · November 1, 2014 8:54 pm

President Obama speaks at an event with American health care workers fighting Ebola Wednesday in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama and the virtues of inaction

Steve Chapman · October 30, 2014 4:10 pm

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn speaks during a press conference at the Governor's office at the State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, on January 30, 2009. (Photo by Michael Tercha/Chicago Tribune/MCT via Getty images)

Illinois and the dangers of democratic rule

Steve Chapman · October 26, 2014 9:00 am

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz doesn't trust President Obama to protect Americans against Ebola, defeat the Islamic State, oversee the IRS or revamp the health insurance system. (AP/Pat Sullivan)

Should we strip terrorists of citizenship?

Steve Chapman · October 23, 2014 8:59 pm

Former Sec. of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, former President Bill Clinton and U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin work the grill during Harkin's annual fundraising Steak Fry, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014, in Indianola, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Why are Democrats cozy with the Clintons?

Steve Chapman · October 19, 2014 9:00 am

A hazmat worker cleans outside the apartment building of a hospital worker Sunday in Dallas. (AP/LM Otero)

Inflated fears of Ebola and terrorism

Steve Chapman · October 16, 2014 4:31 pm

What the Secret Service needs is something every law enforcement agency needs: Weapons that can incapacitate threatening suspects without inflicting deadly wounds, writes Chapman.Â (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Dangerous people and deadly force

Steve Chapman · October 1, 2014 6:24 pm

he total cost of Bush's Iraq and Afghanistan wars will come to at least $4 trillion, according to a study by Harvard scholar Linda Bilmes. Had we known that -- and had we been forced to make a noticeable sacrifice with every paycheck -- we might have insisted he do things differently, Chapman writes. (iStock Photo)

The latest war will not be free

Steve Chapman · September 27, 2014 8:06 pm

Demonstrators march towards Wall Street from Battery Park to protest for action on climate change and corporate greed on Sept. 22, a day after a huge climate march in New York City. (AP/John Minchillo)

Capitalism and climate change

Steve Chapman · September 25, 2014 3:20 pm

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Do we need corporal punishment?

Steve Chapman · September 24, 2014 1:28 pm

But the clothing manufacturers must think they can appeal to my ego by suggesting that I'm built to be a bouncer, just as they flatter women by turning size 10s into size 4s. Alas, the illusion only lasts until I go into a bar and find myself nose-to-sternum with an actual bouncer, Chapman writes. (iStock Photo)

I’m living large, but it’s an illusion

Steve Chapman · September 18, 2014 8:46 pm