I've been watching the debate about raising the debt ceiling with morbid fascination. For most of my life, I've disliked politicians...

Used properly, credit is one of the most powerful tools of capitalism. It makes it possible for individuals to purchase items that would req...

I saw this ad on World Net Daily this morning and it caught my attention, since it looked to me like a little girl about to push her brothe...

The press has mostly moved on from the question of whether President Obama was born in Hawaii or not. Donald Trump kicked the hornet's n...

I was a guest on the State of Things today, along with Henry Jenkins and and James Daily , talking about Superman renouncing his US citizen...

Superman isn't an American. He's a known alien whose only official place of residence is an underground bunker in Antartica. While h...

Yesterday marked the five year anniversary of Laura's death. Thursday, I took Simon and Veronica to place flowers at her grave. The head...

The latest attempt by DC to grab a few headlines involves Superman renouncing his US citizenship. I haven't yet read Action Comics 900, ...

I've been doing a lot more posts about writing than about politics lately, which is natural since I'm deep inside the process of wri...

I'm turning today's blog post over Andy Remic, a fellow Solaris author with a truly dizzying array of books. Now, as if being an ama...

I'm releasing an anthology of my short fiction very soon to Kindle and Nook, and will be posting several articles about it over the next...

I’ve given a lot of advice on how to be a writer over the years, but today I’m going to give my absolute top bit of advice on how not to be ...

So, somehow I skipped a whole month without finding anything in politics to rant about. Primarily, this was due to my being distracted by wr...

This weekend, about every third editorial I read was about what can and should be done by government to promote the creation of more jobs. O...

The shooting of Gabriel Giffords has caused me to think about some of my basic assumptions. As a libertarian, I'm relatively pro-gun. I ...

These are the most important truths of writing I've learned to date. At various points in the past, I've posted all these rules in v...

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about an even more fundamental building block of writing, the words themselves. My musings were kicked ...

Unemployment among teenagers is sitting close to 24%. It's easy to shrug this off, since most teens live with their families and their l...

Roughly a decade ago, I stopped celebrating religious holidays like Easter and Christmas. It was really difficult to reconcile the celebrati...

Review The Exploration of Dangerous Places by Jonah Knight At Capclave a few weeks ago, I attended a late night ghost story gathering. A few...