In Celebration of the Neocons
In 2004, awaiting a vote in the newly liberated Iraq, their first democratic vote ever, I wrote my first published essay, "Prospects for Democracy in the Middle East", a 5500 word opus, and a pro-Iraq...
20 Year Olds in Iran keep a Freedom Torch Alive Thought Extinguished 40 Years...
20 year-old Iranians are taking to the streets demanding a return of freedoms that were taken away almost 40 years ago, long before they were born.
How did they know? Who told them?
Meanwhile, many of...
If It Sneaks in the Night like a Raid, and Targets Like a Raid
It's a raid. Dammit.
And not a war.
A raid is designed to achieve a limited objective. Raids are not impetuous, born of anger or moral indignation...so no, Ivanka seeing children dead from gas did not...
Columbine and Parkland, the Common Thread
I'm not a student of school shootings, except to take note of the shooters, many of whom, from Virginia Tech to Sandy Hook in Connecticut to even Dylan Roof in South Carolina, were mentally...
About Neutralizing those Laser Attacks by Antifa
As you know 3 DHS agents may have been permanently blinded by direct hits on their eyes with green laser beams.
My first complaint off the bat is that no one on-the-ground, reporters such as...
The Russian-Ukrainian Village, Evening Bells
In the 1960s I earned a minor in Russian Studies at university which interestingly enough, provided me with a lot of background to what I would observe when I visited Ukraine and central Russia in 1991 and 1992, when the USSR was finally cashing...