Re: "Is that really racist? Richard Thompson Ford offers a rough-and-ready primer on racism for the not-so-post-racist era," last Sunday Points. Ford is a prime example that higher education in this country is overrun with liberals and that quality journalism...
Re: "Constructive Engagement -- Measuring ripple effects of Obama's Cairo speech," Tuesday Editorials. President Barack Obama's speech was a speech of hope and a new beginning. He presented a message to all of the Muslim worlds, guiding them to a...
Re: "TEA will investigate DISD paddling case -- Official: Those involved in incident with student may lose teaching credentials," Saturday Metro, and, "Public flogging brings outcry -- Taliban say teen was immoral; others say she spurned top officer," Saturday news...
For a while there, things seemed to be going fairly well in Afghanistan. Violence had subsided, unemployment was dropping, construction was booming and militias appeared to be disbanding. But now it's all falling apart, and before we set about fixing...
The Taliban effectively rules Pakistan's Swat Valley after the government more or less surrrendered. You know how close that puts them to the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, seat of the government and where the country's nuclear weapons are administered? About as...
This is pretty shocking: the government in Islamabad has agreed to cede its authority in part of a contested territory -- i.e., it's agreed to let Islamic law rule to some degree over the territory. It's an attempt to appease...
Re: "Talking Points," last Sunday Points. My congressman, U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, wishes to emulate the Taliban rather than help put the country back together that his ilk ran into a ditch over the past eight years. He bemoans what...
It looks like the United States and Pakistan might be parting ways specifically over the issue of talking with our enemies and whether to reach an accommodation or fight to the death. Pakistan's newly elected leadership wants to modify the...
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