Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Glenn Greenwald writes about the arrest this week of three young American men who supposedly were going to fly to Syria to fight for Isis -- despite their lack of money or, in the case of one of the guy, the inability to travel internationally because his mother had...
Michael Weiss Explains Isis
Here's my conversation with Michael Weiss, author of "Isis: Inside the Army of Terror," a book that should serve as a primer on the terrorist group for everyone. Among the topics we discussed: President Obama's claim that Isis is not about religion, it's about...
The Movie About The War Hero
There hasn't been as much discussion of the movie about the war hero as I thought there would be. I'm not talking about "American Sniper," the story of Iraq war vet Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in US military history. I'm talking about "The Imitation Game," the...
The Failure Of Terrorism
In July, 2009, I wrote a quick blog entry entitled "To What End?" When I heard about the bombings in Jakarta yesterday, my first thought was, what do these terrorists hope to achieve? Long term, I mean. If you look at the various terrorist acts in the last decade or...
Dean Obeidallah on Charlie Hebdo
Dean Obeidallah is a Muslim-American comedian, writer for The Daily Beast and CNN, director of "The Muslims Are Coming," and host of a new weekly program that debuts Saturday on SiriusXM. I asked him to join me on KTRS to discuss his perspective, as both a Muslim and...
Hacked
Random thoughts on Sony withdrawing "The Interview," in light of threats by cyber-hackers who have already revealed the company's embarrassing internal documents... I didn't get to see "The Interview" because the St. Louis press screening was scheduled for Thursday...
Stop Asking That
On Friday when President Obama held his end-of-the-year press conference, the topic of the Sony hack and the withdrawal of "The Interview" came up. The president said that his administration would respond to the hack, which he considered a criminal action, but was not...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Last month, I linked to a powerful, thoughtful piece by David Masciotra that criticized military worship, in which he wrote that American soldiers who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan haven't done so to protect our freedoms, that not every soldier is a hero if you...