By now, many of you know that President Barack Hussein Obama, perhaps the stupidest or most treacherous man to ever occupy the office of President of the United States of America, has traded five top-ranking Taliban members taken prisoner years ago for the return of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl -- a man who was almost certainly either a deserter or ( Read more... )

Daniel Greenfield, in "The Immorality of the Moral High Ground" (Canada Free Press, July 15th 2010, http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/25388) has managed to say something I have been thinking for some time, and say it really well:

We can't win the War on ( Read more... )

I wrote this back in 2006. Alex and Washoe have died since then, but the truths they demonstrated are still true.

===There has been strong resistance from the scientific community to the use of the terms "language" and "culture" to describe animal communication and learned behavior. But this resistance seems to me to be essentially irrational and ( Read more... )

Back in the Bad Old Days when we took war seriously, there was one great check against atrocity. It was the knowledge that, if you did something egregiously bad to a surrendering foe, if you massacred prisoners or captured civilians, and the word got out, the same would be done to youAnd nobody would blame those who did it to you. Because you did ( Read more... )