The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

R.I.P. Ariel Sharon, a Tough Jew

Today, former PM Ariel Sharon passed away. He was a courageous leader & defender of Israel. May his memory be blessed pic.twitter.com/YCEJPPsE6R — IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) January 11, 2014 When I was a kid growing up in the 1960s, the endless nightmare of the Vietnam War was the nightly news. And it was therefore an astonishing […]

This Was Probably Predictable

Ace of Spades: American troops spilled their guts fighting Al Qaeda in Fallujah in 2004. And now, AQ has driven out all representatives of the Iraqi government and raised its flag over government buildings. Like nature, Islamic extremism abhors a vacuum: Black-clad Sunni militants of Al Qaeda destroyed the Falluja Police Headquarters and mayor’s office, […]

A Lesson in Efficient Dictatorship

Try to imagine that frightening alternative universe in which a guerrilla army overthrows the federal government, or a cabal of dissident generals stages a military coup and, as a result, I became the charismatic Supreme Dictator of America. The first order of business for the McCainist junta, of course, would be the liquidation of all […]

Second Terror Bombing in Russia

More than 30 people killed in two days: A deadly suicide bombing at a crowded railroad station in southern Russia on Sunday, followed by a blast in a trolley bus on Monday in the same city, raised the specter of a new wave of terrorism six weeks before the Winter Olympics in Sochi. . . […]

Russia: 15 Killed in Suicide Bombing

A female bomber at a train station: More than a dozen people were killed Sunday when a blast ripped through a railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd in what authorities say was an attack carried out by a suicide female bomber. If confirmed, the presumed attack will prove to have been the […]

Four U.S. Troops Released in Libya

The post-“Arab Spring” anarchy continues: Four American military personnel assigned to the United States Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, were detained Friday and then released after being held for hours by the country’s Interior Ministry, American officials said. The four were believed to have been reviewing potential evacuation routes for diplomats when they were detained, according […]

Egypt Is Ahead of Us

Is our State Department paying attention? Egypt’s military-backed interim government declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization Wednesday, intensifying its campaign of arrests and prosecutions targeting its members and tightening the noose on the group’s network of charities and businesses. The unprecedented executive decision likely ends any chance of reconciliation between the government and the […]

#SouthSudan: Words Aren’t Enough

UN investigators discovered a mass burial in rebel-held Bentiu, South Sudan. #SouthSudan http://t.co/2F8nMYrCcI — Aaron Myracle (@synthaaron) December 24, 2013 There has been relatively little conservative commentary on the crisis in South Sudan. Part of this could be explained by low expectations: Anarchy in Africa is not exactly unusual, and why should this particular episode […]

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