David Suzuki: “Sickened” By Canadian Senate Vote Against Environment

When one thinks about people who have had a large impact on the debate surrounding environmental issues only a couple of names come to mind, Al Gore and David Suzuki. I recently had the privilege of meeting one of these men, David Suzuki, at the Vancouver International Film Festival screening of his...

Happy Thanksgiving from CFLF

Allow me this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for coming back day after day and reading the drivel that travels from my little brain down to the tips of my fingers and onto this page. It has been seven years since I launched Comments from Left Field and although I took a significant hiatus I...

TSA Scanner/Pat-Down Hysteria

I have successfully avoided commenting on this topic for the two weeks it has remained atop the memeorandum rankings simply because I flat-out disagree with the hysterical sentiment being echoed. Now, rather than having to write that piece that I have dreaded I can simply say…what he said. The fact...

Pushing America Off A Cliff

You wouldn’t know it from the deafening lack of covering today but yesterday was an extraordinary news day. It is not every day that one get’s to witness an historic public admission of guilt by someone who was a principle in a campaign of willful deceit that leads to the death of 45,000...

2014 Ain’t Nuthin’ But A Number

Hannah Gurman of Foreign Policy In Focus puts the new 2014 Afghan benchmark into perspective: While NATO secretary general, Anders Rasmussen framed 2014 as the end of NATO’s combat mission in Afghanistan, Obama made sure to refer to 2014 as a target date rather than a deadline. The withdrawal of U.S....