The internet, newspapers, and television news have been showing this photograph of Israel and Gaza from outer space, purporting to show the explosions from the war in that region: You know tODD, a super-commenter on this blog who specializes in throwing cold water on over-hyped
We have gone from one foreign policy extreme (waging wars to impose democracy on people who don’t want it and who have no cultural or religious foundation for it) to the other (projecting a weakness that has given us Islamic radicals taking over Iraq, Russian
The radical Iraqi Muslims that call themselves the Islamic State, a.k.a. ISIS, blew up a site that has been venerated for centuries as the tomb of Jonah. This was in Mosul, the site of what used to be the Biblical city of Nineveh. Some characterized
Some people, it is said, are cat people and others are dog people. The same can be said of states and countries. Some have more cats and some have more dogs. After the jump, a discussion of the phenomenon and a link to some maps
Anne Applebaum points out that Russia has a smaller population than Nigeria or Pakistan, with an economy about the size of Italy’s. But it has a lot of economic and political clout–possibly enough to thwart the recently-imposed sanctions for what Vladimir Putin is doing to
The Nazis painted a yellow Star of David on the homes of Jews to mark them for persecution. Today the Islamic State in Iraq is painting an Arabic “n”–for Nazarene–on the homes of Christians for the same reason. In a show of solidarity, Christians all
Two years ago, the sun blasted out two clouds of plasma. If this had happened one week earlier, they would have hit the earth, knocking out our power grid and doing so much damage that we would still be trying to repair it. (more…)
President Obama announced an agreement with the European Union that would slap what could be some serious sanctions on Russia, an attempt to punish Vladimir Putin for his aggression in the Ukraine. Europe had resisted imposing sanctions, but the shooting down of the Malaysian airliner
We’ve linked quite a bit to the work of my friend and friend-of-my-daughters Mollie Hemingway, a confessional Lutheran journalist who is now a senior editor at The Federalist (a lively site of wit and intellectual firepower that you will want to bookmark). Well, she is
The United States Constitution sets up a system of federalism, a union of states, each of which can have separate laws. We are seeing some quirks of federalism today, as certain states legalize and commercialize what neighboring states treat as a serious crime. Colorado is
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