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Wanted: The Hanging Judges

If there is candidate from a pool of terrorists who is a worthy successor of the notorious Iranian hanging judge Sadegh Khalkhali, then Abolghasem Salavati

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Kabobathon

I figured this event would be interesting since it highlights the fact that Persian kabob has crossed over into the American pop culture. Califire Grill

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The Assault on Public Education

Public education is under attack around the world, and in response, student protests have recently been held in Britain, Canada, Chile, Taiwan and elsewhere. California

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Beware, Hussein!

By a strange quirk of fate, the Israelis are pushing for the release of the notorious Israeli spy, Jonathan Pollard shortly before the runup to

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Iran Can Be Deterred?

Last week, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was Jimmy Carter’s national security advisor, was sounding pretty relaxed about the prospect of Iran getting nuclear weapons. He told

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Tongue-cutting at Al Jazeera

I’m currently conducting interviews as a follow-up to the rather acrimonious debate that erupted this week from my argument that “terrorism expertise” is not an

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