Author: BooMan

The president hits on points and phrases I have used time and again whenever I’ve written about the Middle East. One Egyptian put it simply: Most people have discovered in the last few days…that they are worth something,...

Sic semper tyrannis (thus always to tyrants). That’s what Brutus said as he plunged the knife into his friend Julius Caesar, and also what John Wilikes Booth said after he unloaded his .44 caliber Derringer into Abraham...

Rarely do we see such an explicit articulation of the view that we can keep the national security state rolling by simply substituting “Islamism” or “terrorism” for “communism.” Charles...

Let us ruminate on the following excerpts from Obama’s Cairo Speech of June 4, 2009. Palestinians must abandon violence. Resistance through violence and killing is wrong and does not succeed. For centuries, black people in...

Egypt’s new Vice President Omar Suleiman just appeared on Egyptian television and announced that Hosni Mubarak has resigned and placed control of the country in the hands of the “higher council of the armed...