Iran's newly elected president, Hassan Rouhani, has launched an all-out diplomatic charm offensive lately, even reportedly saying that the Holocaust was "reprehensible". That's a far cry from the former president who was a nut who sponsored international conferences of Holocaust denials ( Read more... )

As John McCain keeps beating the drums of war in favor of intervening in Syria -- in opposition to the White House's more intelligent strategy of working with other countries to bring about some sort of peace -- it's worth noting a double standard in how we use our resources ( Read more... )

Days after North Korea's failed ballistic rocket launch, India has tested a nuclear-tipped missile that has the range to hit Beijing or Shanghai. As if it wasn't bad enough that India and Pakistan have had the ability to lob battlefield nukes at each other across the border, we now have to deal with one more nuclear missile power ( Read more... )

I read a letter to the editor in the Wall Street Journal offering the opinion that since Hamas is the elected government of Gaza, then no one living there can claim to be "innocent" because Gaza residents should simply suffer the moral consequences of their vote. As I've said before, there are many reasons I do not accept the argument that there ( Read more... )