John McCain's gracious concession speech is marred by the ugly response of the crowd. . . read more

But wait a minute. During the Cold War, before it collapsed in a heap of rubble, the Soviet Union was a country of nearly 250 million people. Its mighty Red Army had defeated the German Wehrmacht in World War II. The USSR had tens of thousands of nuclear bombs and it had missiles bigger than ours, capable of lobbing 20-megaton bombs on American cities. It held half a dozen European nations of ancient lineage captive, and financed dreaded revolutionary forces around the globe. It had a nuclear submarine fleet that was better than ours, and that was equipped with sea-launched missiles that could be fired at U.S. targets from locations only minutes from our coastline.

Iran, in contrast, is a poor country of 70 million. It has no nuclear weapons. It has no missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, much less of carrying them halfway around the world to U.S. targets. It hasn’t conquered or even attacked another country in centuries, and seems to show little interest in doing so (it couldn’t even defeat Iraq, a country less than half its size, which attacked it in the 1980s). Its navy consists of little boats more suitable to towing water skiers than to fighting American carrier battle groups. Its air force wouldn’t last a day in a contest with the planes from just one U.S. carrier. Hell, Iran's leadership is afraid of its own women! But Big John is afraid, and he says we all should be too. [More] . . read more

Yesterday was yet another sad day in the life of Pakistan, with the assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti - allegedly, over his opposition to Pakistan’s blasphemy law.

First Punjabi Governor Salman Taseer, whose progressiveness, forethought and idealism could only be heard about after his death, was gunned down because of his opposition to the law. Now another moderate has suffered the same fate, standing up for reason.

We see hope in Pakistan.

But the country doesn’t know how to protect those that can pull it out of the dark.

Pakistan should hang its head in shame.

And America should seriously reconsider if their government is good for anything.  . . read more