Month: January 2012

I think a lot of the debate about Arthur Brisbane’s inquiry is off-point. Brisbane, the “public editor” of the New York Times wants to know if the paper should challenge factually inaccurate information from...

On Monday, March 15, 1965, President Lyndon Baines Johnson addressed a Joint Session of Congress. It was a mere week after the deadly clashes in Selma, Alabama, where the police had attacked protestors as they assembled for a...

. ISI scripted Mumbai attack, Qaida cleared it: Shahzad book NEW DELHI (India Times) –  The 26/11 terror attacks that killed 166 people and brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war was scripted by ISI officers...

I am always leery when religion is inserted into politics, whether we are speaking of JFK and the controversy surrounding his Catholic faith, to Barack Obama and the anchor Rev. Wright conservative commentators hung around his...

. Egyptian women cane morality police BENHA, Egypt – Vigilante gangs of ultra-conservative Salafi men have been harassing shop owners and female customers in rural towns around Egypt for “indecent behavior,”...