When I saw video clips of the joyful toppling of statues of Bashar al-Assad, as well as the tearing from walls of his ubiquitous portrait, I wondered what it must be like to be a dictator and see images of yourself everywhere (not that I have any ambitions myself in that direction). Do you come to imagine, for example, that they are a manifestation of genuine popular affection for yourself, or are you like the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, of the poem by Ernesto Cardenal “Somoza Unveils a Statue of Somoza in the Somoza Stadium” (the fact that Cardenal, a Nicaraguan priest, was a ...
Armed Black Panthers are now prowling the neighborhood where Ahmaud Arbery was fatally gunned down on February 23rd, and an American public that is already stir-crazy from months of being locked down ...
The Black Hebrew Israelites are the Rodney Dangerfield of hate groups—I’m tellin’ ya, they can’t get no respect. In DC this past January, after they diligently taunted some white Catholic ...
Antwann Brown may have a rap sheet going back 25 years...he may have a record that includes busts for drug dealing, dealing near a school, grand theft, and domestic battery. But ...
Why the hell are these mass shooters always straight white males? Well, for starters, because they’re not. According to a study of mass shootings in the USA between 1982 and ...
50. With another 50 or so wounded, many in critical condition, the final fatality count may rise. That’s a lot of dead Muslims. But at the risk of sounding intensely ...
It was July 17, 1984, and James Huberty wasn’t feeling well. Something wasn’t right “upstairs.” The recently fired security guard in San Ysidro, Calif., (a border district ...
Early one afternoon last week in Toronto, 25-year-old software developer Alek Minassian allegedly drove his van over nearly a mile-long stretch of city sidewalk, wantonly plowing ...
I have a feeling deep in my innards that if the psycho-looking female Persian self-described “vegan bodybuilder” Nasim Aghdam had simply eaten the occasional cheeseburger, ...
For two years, this writer has been consumed by two subjects. First, the presidency of Richard Nixon, in whose White House I served from its first day to its last, covered in my ...
It's time for Morrissey's periodic turn as a subject of two minutes" hate. In a recent interview with news.com.au, the British singer provoked fury with his opposition to ...
Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. is the sort of guy you"d expect to go on a shooting rampage at two different Jewish community centers and wind up killing three Christians instead. ...
Women, beware: There’s a new emerging threat online. This week two journalists whose prior experience includes folding T-shirts at Abercrombie & Fitch and writing ...
Gay activists insist that “faggot” comes from the word for the kindling beneath the feet of heretical homosexuals. That’s a lie. But while the word ...
Chris Dorner thinks he's a highly moral individual. A crusader for justice. A righter of wrongs. Maybe even a hero. At least that's the impression I get from reading the intense, ...
Las Vegas is the the most inorganic of all American cities. Surrounded by a dry, dusty, prehistoric landscape, this town was conjured from nothingness by the Mob not very long ...
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