Month: June 2005

Commencement addresses are tricky things. Most speakers go in knowing that expectations are at once very low and very high. People would love to hear a remarkable address, but they know they are unlikely to hear one, the best...

From Al Jazeera Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. by Robert Pape, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. A surge in “suicide attacks” in Iraq and elsewhere around...

What are you doing this weekend?

“You’ve committed a felony. And you’re considered a terrorist,” security screeners at LAX told Cecilia Beaman, a 57-year-old grandmother and principal at Pacific Middle School in Des Moines (a Seattle...

Spokane Mayor, Jim West, used to be so righteous, so pious, so straight and narrow.  Now he’s exposed as a big ol’ hypocrite, or perhaps something worse. For 20 years he’s been one of the most powerful...