Olga Georges- Picot

A Short History of Stupidity in the Middle East

When I hear the words Sykes-Picot I more often than not feel like punching an Englishman or a Frog—any Englishman, any Frog—in the mouth, but then I think of François ...

The Political Classless

In the early 1980s I became familiar with a cartoonist whom I considered to be one of the cleverest men I had read in a very long time. I collected as many of his pieces as ...

Varg Vikernes

Varg the Distresser

Louis Cachet, the artist formerly known as Varg Vikernes and the mastermind behind one-man black (apparently now formerly) metal band Burzum, is back in the legal hot seat. He was ...

In Praise of Mexican Inventors

President Barack Obama"€”who would never lie...at least not intentionally...or at least he wouldn"€™t admit it...recently spoke at a Massachusetts school where he claimed that ...

Eric Cantor

A Populist Path to Power?

“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.” If Thomas Jefferson’s ...

Saving the World From Book Clubs

There was a time"€”or so I"€™m told, anyway; it was long before my day"€”when college kids thumbed their noses at authority, fiercely defended the freedom to openly exchange ...

Salute to Israel Parade

To Hell With the Truth

Last week in the Bagel, and then London here I come. As I write, hundreds of thousands of Jews are marching up 5th Avenue for “Salute to Israel Day.” They have been marching ...

President Barack Obama

The Real White House

Washington, D.C., May 15th, 2014: "€œWhat the HELL is going on?"€ roars POTUS as he storms into the Oval Office, holding a bourbon from his interrupted dinner. Secretary of ...

White Devils for a Free Africa

I write this while American unmanned flights and 18 American "€œspecialists"€ are looking for those 200 unfortunate girls abducted by Boko Haram, a group our very own Hillary ...

Two Bad Answers

Wednesday this week marks the 25th anniversary of the Chinese army's retaking Tiananmen Square from anti-regime protestors, an event known to Chinese by the date as ...

Michelle Obama

Witches and Snitches

Watch out, codgers, curmudgeons and crackpots: Michelle Obama is enlisting your kids to monitor your thoughts. In a recent speech before five Topeka, KS graduating classes, Mrs. ...

Mahamadou Issoufou

When Eggheads Go Sour

Recently I read an interview with the President of Niger, the francophone country to the north of Nigeria, about Boko Haram, the Islamist group that kidnapped more than 200 ...

Jill Abramson

One Grey Lady Fires Another

Within my lifetime, The New York Times will close its doors for good. "€œIt's not even a newspaper anymore,"€ Dennis Miller likes to say. "€œIt's just a building acrobats ...

Blood in Oklahoma

An almost botched execution in Oklahoma has revived a debate of sorts about capital punishment in America. After the failed injection of a lethal "€œcocktail,"€ a mix of ...

Vladimir Putin

Mr. Putin Goes to Motown

Regardless of what dog you have in the Ukrainian turmoil, it is clear that Putin's plan is crude, transparent, and guaranteed to anger nearly everyone. Does anyone really believe ...

Michelle Obama

World War Webcam

Have you Tweeted, Facebooked, YouTubed, Instagrammed, or LinkedIn (LOL) your hatred of Boko Haram yet? If not, why not? What is wrong with you? Scowling through social media at ...


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