Republican presidential candidate (and modern-day hybrid of Walt Whitman and Martin Luther King) Marco Rubio, was last seen desperately working to dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing (SPOILER: he knows exactly what he’s doing). Today, Rubio was the subject of a piece by Buzzfeed's McKay … Continue reading The right temperament for the job

The Southern Front has been the one major component of the Free Syrian Army that's managed to hold together as a capable fighting force despite the challenges posed by ISIS, extremist rebel forces, and the Assad regime. Last summer analysts were touting it as Syria's "last best hope" for a non-Assad, non-extremist outcome to the … Continue reading Problems in Syria, north and south

ThinkProgress's Beenish Ahmed has the story of two American citizens who have been most likely railroaded by the Kuwaiti justice system (such as it is) because they happen to be a lesbian couple: A U.S. army veteran and her partner have been sentenced to more than 20 years in a Kuwaiti prison for trumped up … Continue reading BREAKING: AMERICAN CITIZENS UNJUSTLY IMPRISONED BY MIDDLE EASTERN DICTATORSHIP AND oh, my bad, never mind

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