| Oct 24, 2011 | Peace / SecurityLike any good liberal I thought that Muammar Gaddafi, after being captured by rebel forces, should have been read his Miranda rights and then taken directly to jail to await trial by a jury of his peers. After being indicted, of course. As a human being, however, I...
| Oct 17, 2011 | Peace / SecurityIt’s “a dagger pointed directly at the heart of Montgomery County,” warned County Executive Ike Leggett. Huh? Was there a do-it-yourself bomb shop in Bethesda? An open sewer in Silver Spring? An organization dedicated to teaching kids in Chevy Chase...
| | Peace / SecurityBack those troops Where e’er they roam; But let them suffer When they’re home. With great fanfare, President Barack Obama recently presented a Congressional Medal of Honor to Dakota Meyer, a living hero. Presidents don’t often get to do that....
| Oct 10, 2011 | Peace / SecurityThe battle over the debt ceiling laid bare the need to cut the deficit while foreshadowing a fierce fight in Congress to make actual budget cuts. Both the “supercommittee,” a group of 12 Republicans and Democrats, and other congressional panels are working...
| Sep 26, 2011 | Peace / SecurityWhen President Barack Obama addressed the UN General Assembly in September 2010, he sounded hopeful that by the following year there would be “an agreement that will lead to a new member of the United Nations — an independent, sovereign state of Palestine,...
| | Peace / SecurityIn the grotesque wars that pit Mexican armed forces and drug cartels against each other and civilians who get in their way, the Zetas cartel plays a fearsome role. Born of U.S.-trained Mexican special forces who began working as muscle for the Gulf drug cartel, the...
