Month: August 2014

Many, many of my diaries in the past three years made the distinction between Shia, Sunni, Alawite, Sufi. Salafist and Wahhabist. My assertion was that the Obama administration held insufficient knowledge of the Muslim power...

Consider this a kind of thought experiment: You are driving home at night in a nice car, not a luxury car, just a plain standard, clean, relatively new sedan. You have no bumper stickers on your car of any kind, political,...

There are a variety of things we can draw from the polling results on international support for the radical Muslim group, ISIS. While it is alarming that 27% of young French people support the group, it is also instructive that...

When you are hammered, almost anything can seem funny. Especially wind-up monkey toys.

In retrospect, whether you agree with it or not, Prohibition was the progressive, feminist point of view. When it comes to banning prostitution in Nevada, I am not sure if you can unambiguously make the same case. The same...