In post-truth politics, numbers aren’t meant to be accurate. They’re meant to evoke images.
Tackling “fake news” is about concepts, not just numbers
Congress failed to do the right thing by over-riding Obama’s veto of the 911 bill
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Are in Lockstep on Government Spying
Those voters wishing to choose based on respect for privacy shouldn’t expect the candidates to differ.
What can we do to actually defeat ISIS?
A two-pronged approach to eliminating extremist terrorism is needed to destroy ISIS and prevent its reemergence.
French government all too willing to accept terrorism
Why isn’t France more muscular in dealing with the terrorism threat?
Was the Nice Attack Really Planned or “Inspired” by ISIS?
Not a whole lot of evidence yet to support an ISIS narrative.
Double jeopardy? Gay Muslims in America
One day in the late 1950s on a golf course with actor-comedian Jack Benny, song-and-dance man Sammy Davis Jr. was asked what was his handicap. “Talk about handicap,” said Davis, according to various sources. “I’m a one-eyed Negro Jew.” Right. Beat that for a handicap. Davis was an African-American convert to Judaism who lost an […]
Orlando shooting reaction has the feel of eternal recurrence
Friedrich Nietzsche, that great sage of despair, asked, “What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be […]
Nearly universally, the political response to Orlando is “hate your enemies more”
Every interest group has its villain in the shooting, and each seems to want to use this event to vanquish their boogeyman.
Several stabbed in London subway as incident being called terrorist attack
A couple of people were stabbed on Saturday night at a London subway station by a man who kept shouting that “this is for Syria.”