The world has been generally deadlocked over Syria. The UN Security Council cannot muster any kind of veto-proof majority for any action, nobody wants to engage in an intervention, and meanwhile the situation in the country has devolved into civil war. So we can view this as a potential step forward, albeit with one excruciating [...]

Four cops in Washington state were murdered in a premeditated hit at a coffee shop over the weekend, and all anyone can talk about is the fact that the chief suspect, Maurice Clemmons, was once given clemency by then-Governor Mike Huckabee in Arkansas nine years ago. Clemmons has been surrounded, wounded and perhaps killed; a [...]