Should ransoms ever be paid to Islamic terrorists?
A new video: The trio of videos released by the Islamic State in recent weeks have followed the same grim pattern — a helpless and unarmed Westerner is forced to …
A new video: The trio of videos released by the Islamic State in recent weeks have followed the same grim pattern — a helpless and unarmed Westerner is forced to …
British Intelligence agency MI 5 said that they believe that they know the identity of the so called Jihadi John, the man captured on video beheading three Western men for …
“You’re acting very war-like yourself!” -Senator Carl Levin (D) Media Medea Benjamin had a message to send to ISIS yesterday: Oh, no…wait. That was at yesterday’s Senate Armed Services Committee …
With great fanfare and a nationwide, prime time presidential address to the American people, President Obama announced the formation of a “broad coalition” that would wage war together to destroy …
Robert Kagan had an excellent piece in the Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago. Titled “Power Failure” it discussed the parallels between the aftermath of WW I and …
Everyone is worried over the big violent men of the NFL and their domestic violence. A man beating a woman is pathetic, the sort of behavior we expect from Muslims. …
In this celebrity-comicon world where teleprompters send us uncomplicated pablum of feel-good lies that big government will take care of all our ills, let’s pluck some of the mainstream assessments out by the roots before the sand coagulates and our necks get permanently imbedded. There is much false nonsense to rip out of the dark morass it comes from, nevertheless observing a couple of deplorable pieces of social truth will make a good start.
Remember this? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_nxouSJq9c[/youtube] Remember this? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKSb2ukQxvY[/youtube] Remember this? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLteUGkvpOc[/youtube] By now you have no doubt seen the video of George W. Bush predicting what would happen in Iraq if the …
WordsmithA former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He achieved his B.A. in English from …
Fifty years ago the brilliant and always challenging philosopher of communication theory, Marshall McLuhan, wrote Understanding Media, in which he exclaimed, “In a culture like ours, long accustomed to splitting and dividing all things as a means of control, it is sometimes a bit of a shock to be reminded that, in operational and practical fact, the medium is the message.”