Today the WSJ publishes an editorial pretty much along the same lines as my piece on the subject from yesterday. From the WSJ: The death of Christopher Lane, while as troubling as that of Trayvon Martin, will not become a … Continue reading →
Through no fault of his own, aspiring baseball player Christopher Lane of Australia was in the wrong place at the wrong time. “The wrong place” was jogging on a street in Duncan, Oklahoma. The wrong time was when a trio … Continue reading →
Will Mubarak actually be released now? Maybe, just maybe, could people be entertaining the thought that Mubarak’s repressiveness was a reaction to the situation in Egypt at the time he came to power? And that said situation has not changed … Continue reading →
…that this sort of thing is rife in the reporting of the action in Egypt right now. Watch the video: Someone just sent me a short video clip with some footage by AlJazeera that was taken inside the mosque yesterday … Continue reading →
I used to read the English-language blog of Big Pharaoh, an Egyptian writer who would report on developments in his country. Then some years ago he closed down the blog, and until yesterday I was unaware that he’d opened it … Continue reading →
Not the Onion. This prospect is just another subset of the “bombs in body cavities” dilemma. I agree with this: The problem is another reason why we should be using behavioural analysis as the primary detection method to screen people … Continue reading →
Michael Totten interviewed Eric Trager, an expert on Egypt, shortly before the recent violence erupted there. Trager said: The military believes it not only has to remove Morsi, it has to decapitate the entire organization. Otherwise, the Brotherhood will re-emerge … Continue reading →
Today the violence and killing in Egypt has continued in similar fashion to that of yesterday. The reports (for what they’re worth) are that the death toll is now over 500. Here are some photos; I find that often the … Continue reading →
Today’s news is that between 100-150 people have been killed in two protest camps in Cairo as police attempted to clear them out. When I saw the headlines, I immediately pictured a big tent city, and then government security forces … Continue reading →
The wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind exceedingly fine: Jurors in the trial of James “Whitey” Bulger, the onetime Boston gang boss, have found him guilty of racketeering and conspiracy. Bulger, 83, wearing a gray long sleeve shirt, … Continue reading →
There’s been a new ruling curtailing New York’s controversial police practice of stop-and-frisk: In a blistering decision issued on Monday, the judge, Shira A. Scheindlin, found that on hundreds of thousands of occasions since 2004, the police have systematically stopped … Continue reading →
Did William Tecumsah Sherman foresee the future?: Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. But his words seem archaic and bloodthirsty to most non-Jacksonian modern liberal ears: War is the remedy that our … Continue reading →