by Piper Bayard | Nov 20, 2011 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs
By HOLMES This past Wednesday, November 16, the rebellion in Syria escalated significantly.* A team of rebel commandos lead by, and possibly completely manned by, deserters from the Syrian military attacked an important intelligence center that Syria’s secret...
by Piper Bayard | Oct 20, 2011 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs
By Jay Holmes On Friday, October 14, US President Obama informed the Congress that he ordered the dispatch of approximately 100 US military personnel to Uganda to advise and assist Ugandan military forces in the search for Joseph Kony and other key leaders of...
by Piper Bayard | Jun 7, 2011 | Foreign Affairs
By Jay Holmes Last week, a rocket hit Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s personal mosque at his home in Yemen. It killed three of Saleh’s bodyguards and his personal Imam. Saleh and others were wounded and flown to Saudi Arabia for treatment. The...
by Piper Bayard | May 8, 2011 | Foreign Affairs
By Jay Holmes United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan recently declared that the Detroit, Michigan school system is a national disgrace. He is right. Some politically sensitive types in Detroit were offended by this. They should, instead, be offended by their...
by Piper Bayard | May 5, 2011 | Foreign Affairs
By Jay Holmes The spice trade has dried up, and the 24,000,000 well-armed people in “The South” suffer an unemployment rate of close to 70%. The fragile economy relies on Yemen’s very limited oil supplies, and these are expected to dry up by 2017....
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 | Mar 27, 2011 | Foreign Affairs
By Jay Holmes Five members of the United States Army are facing Court Martial for the alleged murder of innocent civilians in Afghanistan. The facts of the case are not completely known to the Army itself, and I know even less about it. From the information thus far...
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