Occupy Wall Street Gets Occupied

A protest without a message is a protest that will induce protest within itself, scuttling any message and in the end mandating a swift responsible response to curtail any ongoing menace to the protesters themselves and others.Such is the case with the Occupy Wall...

Libya vs. Syria and the Arab Spring

Moammar Gadhafi, deposed and destroyed former dictator of Libya, had a reputation.From wearing carpet-like robes to dismissing the protests that culminated into civil war that deposed and ultimately killed him, Gadhafi had little real power once the requisite number...

Tunisian Elections after the Jasmine Revolution

"I will be voting for freedom and for jobs," one Tunisian said.It is not the government's job to give anyone a job. This is the very corruption that has incited Arab peoples across the Middle East to rise up against their leaders.The socialist impulse...

Ivy League School: Anything But: The Teachers

I have often made the point about how unhappy teachers are.I could think of no group who better typified this unrest and disconcerted state than the other teachers I suffered with, and suffered through, at Ivy League School.One was an effete, prissy multicultural...

Basque ETA Vows to End Violence

With Arab Uprisings in the Middle East and economic crises, across Europe, there is some welcome news in the Basque terrorist group's renunciation of violence.Euskadi Ta Askatasuna ("Basque Homeland and Freedom" in the Basque language) has been...