Month: November 2011

Looks like a case of new regime, same human rights abuses. Thousands of people, including women and children, are being illegally detained by rebel militias in Libya, according to a report by the Secretary-General of the United...

Now that the Republican primary and caucus schedule is set it is at least theoretically possible to make some predictions about how the process will unfold. I have to confess, though, that I’ve never been so flummoxed by a...

I admit to kind of a perverse soft spot for the Mustache of Understanding. He tries so hard — way, way too hard — to present elite Beltway conventional wisdom as cutting edge thinking. He’s also, of late,...

I can’t stop laughing at Texas Republicans. Oh, and Arizona Republicans, too. Stupid racists. So stupid and racist that they just keep shooting themselves in the foot and costing themselves congressional seats.

. No, the war on al-Qaeda isn’t over! Handing power to his VP establishes a status-quo. Yemen is a failed state and has a large influx of refugees from Somalia across the Gulf of Aden. Both nations suffer from piracy on the high...