Hate on the March

An American friend who is very well connected in Washington, D.C. was telling me he's worried about Europe. So what else is new, I said. "€œNo, I really mean it, future ...

Kristol Strikes Again

American bombs have returned to Iraq. A year after the Obama Administration's proposed air strikes in Syria were thwarted by public outcry, the military-industrial complex is back ...

What the Hell ISIS Going On? 

On Wednesday, NBC Nightly News profiled Don Morgan, a 44-year-old who renamed himself Abu Omar al-Amreeki after flunking a military boot camp and getting fired from his job as a ...

Hillary Clinton

Does it Matter if Hillary Clinton Is a Carpet-Muncher?

Jenny McCarthy, easily the finest female specimen ever to appear on estrogen-addled daytime-TV squawkfest The View, recently upset the eternally offended Gay Lobby by insinuating ...

The Money of Fools

People often claim to have cultivated their inner child as if this were a good thing to have done. They are proud of it, in fact. The "€œinner child"€ that each of us ...

Keep Your Friends Close … Unless They’re in Washington

Gstaad—Can somebody tell me when was the last time America got it right? Uncle Sam’s track record in selecting leaders in faraway places reminds me very much of my own, where ...

You Believe What You Want to Believe

I was walking through the Fox News building a while ago and a producer introduced me to a young black man by saying, "€œThis is the engineer you"€™ll be working with ...

Democracy: The Hanging Judge

I noticed a fair few mentions of the phrase "€œdeath penalty"€ from UK news outlets last fortnight; little surprise, given that the antepenultimate Wednesday marked the ...

Day of Rage March, New York

Is Ferguson Our Future?

“America is on trial,” said Rev. Al Sharpton from the pulpit of Greater St Mark’s Family Church in Ferguson, Missouri. At issue, the shooting death of Michael ...

Stop Me if You”€™ve Heard This …

America has been at or on the verge of war with Iraq for as much of my life as I can remember. Now, the John Doe currently known as Barack Obama is bombing the Iraqi insurgency ...

Is ISIS ‘An Existential Threat’?

U.S. air strikes since Friday have opened a corridor through which tens of thousands of Yazidis, trapped and starving on a mountain in Iraq, have escaped to safety in ...

The Evil of Occupation

Ask any Greek about the Turks and the best you"€™ll get is a grimace. More often than not the answer will be a swear word and the word "€œbarbarians"€ thrown in for good ...

The End, or Something Like It

On August 2, 2014, the Obama Administration allowed the first of two American health care workers who had contracted the Ebola virus back into the U.S. There is no logical ...

Modern Israel’s Terrorist Roots

I generally don’t care about the Middle East, but since no one ever seems to shut the fuck up about it for more than five minutes, I will state for the record that I think ...

Get Me to Wyoming!

I am looking out my window at the green landscape and forested mountains rising beyond, as peaceful a scene as there is in this troubled world, but this is Switzerland, a country ...

The Age of Obama

It was the Sun King, Louis XIV, who uttered the immortal edict of classical despotism: "€œL"€™Ã‰tat, c"€™est moi!"€ There is some debate amongst historians as to ...


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