America Says ‘No!’ to a Beltway War

Last week, hell came to the tiny Christian village of Maaloula where they still speak Aramaic, the language of Jesus. “Rebels of the Free Syrian Army launched an assault ...

Australia: Camp of the Ain’ts

Attention, all you boat people headed Down Under: Australia doesn"€™t want you. Knowing this, the two main candidates for prime minister in Saturday's national elections each ...

Dubrovnik, Croatia

Clearing Croatia of Commies

Croatia is responsible for the launch and execution of the largest military operation witnessed on European soil since World War II. But without Serbia’s late Slobodan ...

Martin Luther King Jr. monument, Washington D.C.

He Had a Dream

This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. I have no recollection of the 1963 event myself, but I have good ...

Bashar Hafez al-Assad

Congress Should Veto Obama’s War

“Congress doesn’t have a whole lot of core responsibilities,” said Barack Obama last week in an astonishing remark. For in the Constitution, Congress appears as ...

Bradley Manning

Dangerously Sensitive

Political correctness, that great misguided ennobler/enabler of disgruntled losers and embittered misfits, may have helped pave the way for Bradley Manning and Nidal Hasan to ...

Deciphering Egypt’s Hieroglyphics

Regarding Egypt’s current turmoil, international neophytes of every stripe claim to know precisely what is happening in a nation they scarcely know outside of colorful ...

Democracy’s Dhimmis and Dummies

There is no doubt in my mind that we wish our destruction. What else could it be? An Elders of Zion plot? Hardly. They would be among the first to go down, although unlike us, ...

Pussy Riot

Post v. Putin—Whose Side Are You On?

The culture war has gone global. And the divisions are not only between, but within nations. “Suddenly, homosexuality is against the law,” wailed Jay Leno. “I ...

Vladimir Putin

Do We Really Want a Cold War II?

“There have been times when they slip back into Cold War thinking,” said President Obama in his tutorial with Jay Leno. And to show the Russians that such Cold War ...

Is Democracy’s Sun Setting?

So where are we with this democracy business? Last time I brought it up I left you with Robert A. Heinlein's time traveler: "€œHow were things when you left? Especially, how is ...

Petra, Jordan

Jordan’s Influx of the Unwanted

Few Westerners could locate Jordan on a map. If they think about it at all, it likely concerns Queen Noor, the glamorous wife of former King Hussein. So why should anyone bother ...

Fiat Citizenship

In the immigration debate, the conventional wisdom is that the solution to millions of "€œundocumented workers"€ is for the government to print up documents for them. That ...

It’s Hard to Be a Homo in Russia

A new Cold War is brewing between Russia and the West, but this time it's being fought over the rainbow flag. As the USA rapidly morphs into a continent-spanning version of Fire ...

Dubai, UAE

What the Middle East Really Needs

If I hear or read one more American hack mentioning the word “democracy” regarding Egypt and the Middle East, I swear on Joe Biden’s hair-implanted head that I ...

Obama’s Moment—A Deal With Iran!

In his second term, Richard Nixon had Watergate, but also the rescue of Israel in the Yom Kippur War. In his second term, Ronald Reagan had Iran-Contra, but also a treaty ...


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