by Piper Bayard | May 2, 2011 | Apocalypse, Foreign Affairs, History
I have been out of town for the past several days, and, as it happens, I was with my writing partner, “Holmes,” in Arizona last night when the news went public that Bin Laden is dead. We broke open a bottle of champagne and toasted. Not in merriment or triumph, but in...
by Piper Bayard | May 1, 2011 | Special Edition Libya
By Jay Holmes I thought it was time for a renewed analysis of some of the Middle East and North African hot spots. Let’s look at a few of the ongoing domestic struggles, starting with Libya. Libya: On Saturday night, a NATO air strike hit a command center/Gadhafi...
by Piper Bayard | Apr 21, 2011 | Special Edition Libya
By Jay Holmes NATO, the dream child of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Winston Churchill, came into existence after WWII for the express purpose of forming an alliance for the mutual defense of its members. The original motive was to defend against any invasion from the...
by Piper Bayard | Apr 13, 2011 | Bayard, Holmes, Movie, No Popcorn
Per a request from our reader, Ellie Ann Soderstrom, Holmes and I sat down together a while back to review the movie, RED. RED is a movie about a retired black-ops CIA agent who puts his old team back together when someone tries to assassinate him. Both Holmes and I...
by Piper Bayard | Apr 10, 2011 | Special Edition Libya
By Jay Holmes The rebels in Libya are not a single unified group that shares the same complex agenda. In fact, the only clear, common agenda that they have thus far demonstrated is a desire to boot Papa Gadhafi and all his little Gadhafis from power. On Thursday, in...
by Piper Bayard | Apr 7, 2011 | Special Edition Libya
By Jay Holmes Since the middle of February, when the fledgling protest movement coalesced into an active rebellion in Libya, many Western observers have been asking, “Who are the Libyan rebels?” Many Libyans, North Africans, and Middle Easterners are...
by Piper Bayard | Apr 6, 2011 | Amusing Ourselves and Hopefully You
By Piper Bayard & Jay Holmes With Congress gearing up to shut down the US government altogether, Holmes and I have once again stepped up to Save the Planet and Strengthen the Economy while they are busy doing their Power Dance. . . . Hey. Somebody’s got to do the...
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