Thursday, December 24, 2015

TGIF: The Season of Peace Requires Action Not Songs

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It's the time of year when people sing about peace and goodwill. Unfortunately in the United States, too little thought accompanies the ...
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Thursday, December 17, 2015

TGIF: America's Asymmetrical War Against the Muslim World

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The demagogic exaggeration of the "terrorist threat,"  which was the centerpiece of the last Republican debates, is easily deflate...
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Monday, December 14, 2015

A Conspiracy of Fear-Mongers

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Over the weekend CNN breathlessly reported as "Breaking News" -- it breathlessly reports everything as "Breaking News" -...
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Saturday, December 12, 2015

How the U.S. Inspires Anti-American Terrorism

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From Stephen M. Walt : Our reluctance to consider whether certain aspects of U.S. foreign and defense policy inspire anti-American extremi...
Friday, December 11, 2015

TGIF: Please Don't Say "Radical" If You Mean" Violent"

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Updated Dec. 14, 2015 It's about time someone challenged the phrase radical Islamic terrorism . The most objectionable part is the word...
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Thursday, December 10, 2015

Cruz Is Bad Too

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I've voiced my share of criticism about Donald Trump, but I've been aware from the start that doing so might lead some people to thi...
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Wednesday, December 09, 2015

A Qualified Judge If Ever There Was

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"I don’t think there’s much in the way of unanticipated side effects that are going to be bad there [in  the U.S. war against ISIS].  -...

It's Complicated

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One feature of aging is the realization that life is complicated. Or maybe it's a bug.

Potential Terrorists Everywhere

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Couldn't an American become "radicalized" just sitting at home watching CNN's coverage of the Middle East?
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Tuesday, December 08, 2015

The Phony Mystery of Why "They" Hate Us

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What do Barack Obama and Donald Trump have in common? Among other things, they have -- or pretend to have -- no clue why some Muslims hate ...
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Friday, December 04, 2015

How to Prevent Terrorism

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The key to preventing terrorism: less rocket science, more morality.
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TGIF: Of Bumblebees and Competitive Courts

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Considering that what liberty we continue to enjoy in the West is a product in large part of competing legal institutions operating within o...
Thursday, December 03, 2015

The Trump Disconnect

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Supporting Trump because you distrust the government is like giving your money to Bernie Madoff because you don't want to lose it.
Tuesday, December 01, 2015

Sanders Keeps Blowing it.

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Bernie Sanders blows every chance he has to be the peace candidate in the presidential race. The latest example: blaming climate change for ...
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Trump's Invented Memory about Muslims

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Why does Trump pretend to remember seeing "thousands and thousands" of New Jersey Muslims celebrating the 9/11 attacks? To justify...
Monday, November 30, 2015

Why Assad Isn't "Our Son of a Bitch"

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While Franklin Roosevelt may not have said that Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza "may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of ...
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Saturday, November 28, 2015

Trump's 9/11 Recollection

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No, Muslims in New Jersey were not celebrating the Twin Towers attacks, but someone was. Writes Grant F. Smith: [T]he highly documented f...

Not So Outside

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We have to stay with Israel. Israel has been our one reliable partner in the Middle East. Israel has been terrific to us. Obama has treated...
Friday, November 27, 2015

Competition, Cooperation, and Conformity

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The opposite of competition is not cooperation (which is a complement of competition) but conformity.
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My Trump Post Makes Newsweek

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Click image My post about Donald Trump's immigrant-deportation proposal was picked up by Newsweek . This screen shot is featured i...