Month: February 2015

Probably the hardest thing for wingnuts to understand is that, for Muslims, the words “Islam,” “Islamic,” and even “jihad” are positive words. When you call something Islamic, the presumption...

If it’s not one thing, it’s another.

It’s not that I don’t think Net Neutrality is important. It’s just that I can’t be energized by every issue under the Sun. Discussing broadband throttling rates is less interesting to me than discussing...

Wars aren’t fought on the battlefield alone as we have seen in recent years. One heck of a courageous article by Juan Cole at Informed Comment! Is ISIL’s ‘Shock and Awe’ more Awe-ful because One Victim?...

His June 2012 article – Stay Out of Syria. Foreign intervention to topple Bashar al-Assad’s bloody regime risks a fiasco on par with Iraq and Afghanistan. Why Syria is the Gordian knot of Obama’s anti-ISIL...