Big Business

Commentators on Fox are wondering why people like Rick Santorum are still running for President, given his anemic poll numbers, and all I can think is that running for President is a business, and Rick is making money by running.

Conflict Resolution

I thought it was interesting that one of the first things the aliens did in the mini-series Childhood's End was to tear down the wall between Gaza and Israel, and bring Arabs and Jews together in peace...

Just Can't Win....

A lot of people on the Right want to have it both ways: they want to tell us why the terrorists want to kill us, and they want to criticize those on the Left who try to understand why the terrorists want to kill us. Also, those on the Right offer simplistic explanations, and the problem of terrorism is anything but simple.

Misinformed?

Sorry Marco Rubio, but I don't think the Muslims want to kill us because we let women drive. Have you read Karen Armstrong's Holy War? Candidates for President should be well-informed.

Islamic Extremists

Karen Armstrong, in the preface of her scholarly book, Holy War, calls it Islamic extremism when she says: “… Islamic extremists destroyed the World Trade Center…”