...here's blog favorite Michael O'Hanlon, on how great it would be if we could send a whole bunch of American soldiers to various parts of Africa to, you know, fix everything: The United States should, with a focused effort and in partnership with other states, make a significant push to improve security in Africa. No … Continue reading From the “People Who Should Never Be Taken Seriously Again” file…

It is three years and two days since the uprising that eventually overthrew Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak began, on January 25, 2011. Mubarak's ouster was seen as the end of almost 60 years of military-backed autocracy and the dawning of a new Egyptian democracy, although the particular revolt that led to his removal was motivated … Continue reading Egypt: Back to the Future

...Republicans sure do seem to like the idea of central planning when it suits their fancy: First off, it seems that the Heritage headline, “You Won’t Believe How Many Food Stamp Recipients Have Attended College,” is a tad misleading, because they aren’t talking about people who finish college, just the number who have attended college, … Continue reading You know, for people who claim to hate Communism so much…

In case you missed it, and I wouldn't blame you if you did, the diplomatic row that is most likely to turn into a shooting war may be the ongoing dispute between Australia and Indonesia. The tension between the two nations, who had been on increasingly good terms with each other following a bottoming out … Continue reading We got somethin’ we both know it, we don’t talk too much about it

Did you know that life for rich people in US America is just like it was for Jewish folks in 1930s Germany, and that there is another Kristallnacht coming, I guess? Here, just let A Rich US American explain it all over you: Regarding your editorial "Censors on Campus" (Jan. 18): Writing from the epicenter … Continue reading Today in the slow, agonizing death of history

So, hey, I finally have five minutes to write something, so let's see what's happening...wow, peace talks over Syria, that's...oh, ok. Egypt is progressing toward...well, civil war, actually, but at least they're going to have a new elected government soon and it won't be led by the mili--you know what, let's leave that alone too. … Continue reading Lost history or history, lost?

Normally when I do one of these I try to stuff it full of my own lame attempt at humor, even when I'm talking about something serious, but no jokes here. A person committed suicide in part because of a Grantland investigative report into a freaking golf putter, and that's not funny. For those who … Continue reading You get a cookie, part 10 of ???: Bill Simmons, editor-in-chief of Grantland

It's hard to wrap your head around the magnitude of the refugee crisis brought on by the Syrian Civil War; there are currently something like 2 million Syrians who had fled the country into difficult and uncertain exile, and estimates suggest that well over 4 million Syrians are internally displaced, uprooted from their homes and … Continue reading The budding refugee crisis you may not have heard about

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, on homosexuality: "The question at the core of the debate on homosexuality is what do we do with an abnormal person? Do we kill him/her? Do we imprison him/her? Or we do contain him/her?" the president was quoted as writing in a letter to parliament. He said that homosexuality was caused … Continue reading With friends like these…

A man was shot and killed yesterday in a movie theater in Tampa. Apparently he'd been texting on his cell phone, with his 3 year old daughter no less, when the previews started. Another patron complained to him about texting during the previews, they argued, and the other patron availed himself of his Second Amendment … Continue reading How the New York Times reports on a shooting