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Britain taking lead on Syria? 27 Aug 2013 | 08:26 am
One of these days, the mainstream media will catch up with reality and start reporting things as they are. In the Libya intervention in 2011, the United States “led from behind” – France and Britain ...
Obama on Syria: Low-quality “jaw-jaw” 24 Aug 2013 | 11:44 pm
It being the silly season in Washington, there had to be a rumor of war. Well, a rumor of a cruise missile strike. Well, OK, a rumor that U.S. Navy warships were ordered to “close their ranges” with...
Duncan, OK murder: It’s the gangsta culture, stupid 22 Aug 2013 | 01:07 am
Colin Flaherty has the dope at LibertyUnyielding. (See also here.) Duncan, Oklahoma: big little town on the prairie. County seat of Stephens County. Crape Myrtle Capital of Oklahoma. Hometown of...
Liberty 101: The principle of establishment 21 Aug 2013 | 02:29 am
Developments at home and abroad are forcing Americans to think anew about the meaning of liberty and the proper nature and function of government. What is important to us, and what must we do to keep...
Egypt: This is big 18 Aug 2013 | 12:02 am
One way to gauge the import of the conflict erupting in Egypt is by looking at the character of media coverage in America. Both sides of the political spectrum have been slow to advance narratives of...
Five phenomena of popular culture about which I am 100 percent clueless 15 Aug 2013 | 01:44 am
Does it mean you are living a permanent “senior moment,” that you see more and more pop-culture references you can’t follow at all? I don’t know. I’m not sure I would have known more about these par...
A unified theory of Benghazi 14 Aug 2013 | 06:57 am
There are several threads that converge in the emerging drama of the Benghazi attack on 9/11/2012. One relates to the involvement of terrorists out of Egypt, with whom ousted president Mohammed Morsi...
Double standard: What did get (briefly) banned at Facebook, versus what didn’t 13 Aug 2013 | 03:27 am
Some things, you have to see to believe. I was alerted by a friend, a couple of days ago, to the existence of a truly revolting, anti-Semitic Facebook page called “The Untold History,” which, accordi...
Abusing the System: Facebook Standards and the People Who Violate Them 13 Aug 2013 | 12:42 am
Reblogged from Observer | News and commentary, authoritative and sophisticated, for influencers in New York and around the country, particularly politics, culture, lifestyle and real estate.: For the...
“Moderate” Rouhani misled West; sneaked in centrifuges? 11 Aug 2013 | 07:51 am
There is a particularly interesting aspect to the video that has recently surfaced, in which Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, gloats over Iran’s success in coopting European negotiators to keep t...
