Be careful out there, US Amercians! Fox News is reporting on something we've all feared for quite some time: Sharia Law may be in your swimming pool! This time, Sharia is rearing its head at America’s swimming pools, where America’s Muslim “minority is becoming the majority,” according to Fox’s Heather Nauert. The evidence is that … Continue reading Creeping Sharia Pool Party!

His Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, capo di tutti capi of the organized criminal organization known as NAMBLA The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, wanted to be down with Obamacare, but it only helps poor people without capitulating to the radically conservative Catholic agenda on every other issue, so he just couldn't do it, you … Continue reading “Whatever you do for one of the least of these, make sure all your other priorities are met before you do it”

It must be quite something to concoct a 9/11-truther conspiracy theory so ludicrous that other 9/11-truthers insist it must be a false flag operation meant to discredit the entire 9/11-truther industry. But somebody has managed to hurdle that bar: I know it is preposterous to claim that the WTC was brought down by nukes but … Continue reading Breakthroughs in conspiracy theorizing

I guess if you're an anti-vaxxer, one of the underappreciated benefits of a civil war would be the precipitous drop-off in vaccination rates. Unfortunately, that leads to this: "In addition to 15 polio cases in Deir al-Zor province, Syria, two additional cases have been confirmed, one each in rural Damascus and Aleppo," the organization said … Continue reading ATTN: Jenny McCarthy, this is what happens when people can’t vaccinate their children

Punditry means never having to say you're sorry, or really suffer any consequences for being bad at your job at all. I am not a pundit, though, and so I feel like I need to go back and straighten something up. Back when the Saudis started showing their displeasure with American policy in the Middle … Continue reading Our Saudi allies have different goals than we do

When looking back on how and why this country talked itself into invading Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein, despite the absence of either a justification or a plan for the day after Saddam was overthrown, you have to reckon with two categories of war cheerleaders. There are the folks who just wanted a war with … Continue reading Jeffrey Goldberg explains stuff at you

It's never a good idea to jump to conclusions, particularly about, say, a temporary deal to slow the Iranian nuclear program while negotiations continue on a permanent settlement. But when you see the kinds of folks who instantly lined up against the deal as the ink was drying on the paper, it's hard not to … Continue reading If these are the people opposing the Iran deal…

There's a deal in place for a six-month slowdown of the Iranian nuclear program and what looks like a rollback of the elements of that program that could lead to the development of a weapon. There's going to be a massive amount of complaining about this deal on the part of people who a) don't … Continue reading BREAKING (no, seriously): Short-term Iranian nuke deal reached

The tragic fall of Uzbek First Daughter, and credit to sadistic, kleptocratic princesses everywhere, Gulnara Karimova, continues: But in the space of one month, the once-untouchable Karimova has suffered an astonishingly public fall—which she has chronicled via outraged missives on Twitter—culminating over the last few weeks in what appears to be the methodical seizing of … Continue reading Who among us hasn’t had a Twitter fight with our people-boiling dad?

If the Syrian rebels were half as good at fighting Assad as they are at reorganizing themselves into new combinations, the war would've been over two years ago. My innate cynicism aside, though, this reorganization might be a big deal: A statement posted online said Ahrar al-Sham, Jaysh al-Islam, Suqour al-Sham, Liwa al-Tawhid, Liwa al-Haqq, … Continue reading Judean People’s Front, Judean Popular People’s Front, and Campaign for a Free Galilee unite to form Popular Front of Judea–er, Syria