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Blood in the Water?
At a recent Brookings Institution event, Bruce Riedel, a senior fellow there, offered some cogent observations about how the jihadis view the drawdown in Afghanistan. Continue reading »
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Al Qaeda’s Ambiguous Support for the Arab Spring
The Arab Spring brought a chance for democratization and the toppling of repressive regimes. However, some remain cautious given the ascendance of Islamist movements, such as the Muslim Brotherhood in...
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Middle Skills, Middle Money?
People with an Associate's degree may earn less in their lifetime, but they might just be earning more right now. New data shows that an Associate's degree may impart the ‘middle skills’ which are the...
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An $85 Billion Rounding Error
In a recent article for the Washington Post, Philip Rucker tries to explain why only some communities seem concerned about sequestration. The sequester “would strike some communities and largely bypass...
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Book Review: The Twilight of Al Qaeda?
It's been nearly a year since the death of Osama bin Laden, and the American public has become accustomed to hearing about an al Qaeda no longer under his leadership, be it in Yemen, Mali, or...
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U.S. Indirectly Helping Al Qaeda Rebels
The United States and its allies are engaged in a tense and confusing intervention within Syria, where arms and aid are being sent to rebels whose loyalties are under question. As the Washington Post...
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Gun Nonsense Overrules Common Sense
As each day passes, the lengths to which school districts will go to prevent gun violence has been taken to new levels of maladministration. For example, last Friday an Anne Arundel County, Maryland,...
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Book Review: Seeds of Terror
In Afghanistan, farmers grow poppy for opium, which is later processed into heroin and, ultimately, sold as heroin on the black market. How, when the Quran defines drugs as “the filth of Satan’s...
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Book Review: Arab Spring or Islamic Supremacism?
Both Egypt and Tunisia have looked to Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) as a model for the Arab Spring in their own states. In his recent book, Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic...
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Just How Bad Off Are Law School Graduates?
Reblogged from Ideas: Arizona State University’s law school is attacking head on the growing problem of law school graduates — who are in the fifth year of a near-depression-level job market — not...
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Climate Change Vs. Energy Poverty
A recent article by Brad Plumer at the Washington Post outlines the tension between climate change goals and the need to provide “energy impoverished” nations with access to electricity. “If we want to...
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CAP Panelist Critiques Obamacare
“I don’t think Obamacare is going to drive health insurance costs down.” These words, while common sense to the Right, prove startling when you consider where they were spoken today: at the liberal...
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Another Form of Diversity for UC Boulder
You know that intellectual diversity is lacking when it takes a special appointment to get a conservative into the University of Colorado at Boulder lineup. Oh wait, it's only for one year. This is...
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Book Review: Transnationalist Obamaite Soft on Terror
Democratic movements in the Middle East have the potential to mobilize a pan-Arab public both on local issues and transnational issues such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, argues Professor Marc...
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Creationism “Creep” in Louisiana
Intelligent design is just another form of creationism, creationism is profoundly unscientific, and such unscientific views do not belong in public classrooms. This, in a nutshell, is the argument of...
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Sharia Starts with a Metal Pipe
The imposition of Islamic law in rebel territories in Syria has begun, a new article in the Washington Post shows. It apparently starts with strokes of a pipe for punishments rather than the more...
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Intercultural Discussion Devolves to Jesus-Bashing
Imagine for a moment that your professor had you write the name of Mohammed on a piece of paper. Then you were to place it on the floor and to stomp on it. Imagine the outrage the community would...
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“Basic Science” Redefined
Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has condemned President Obama’s $3.77 trillion budget as “just another left-wing wish list.” It raises spending and offsets these increases with...
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Long Absence
As some of my more faithful readers may have noticed, I have been absent from the blogosphere for about a month. I recently joined Accuracy in Media as a Research Assistant and have been having quite a...
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No Child Left Behind Faces Long-Awaited Legislative Overhaul
Three Congressional bills have been introduced to alter No Child Left Behind as the 2014 proficiency deadline approaches. Newsmax reported on June 7 that “House Education Committee Chairman John Kline...
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