Although the final votes haven’t been counted at the time of this writing, the United Kingdom has voted in a referendum to leave the European Union. The European Union is a complicated thing. I’ll be damned if I’m summarizing it here at this late hour. You people can use Wikipedia. The very oversimplified summary of…
Category: Geopolitics
Profile of the Orlando Shooter
Now that the dust has settled, I can slake the still thirsty among you who want more juice on the Orlando nightclub shooting. My contention is that I already wrote about it. Here’s the profile on the killer. Here’s the discussion on guns. The articles could use some clean-up and tweaking, as any product seen…
Central African Republic Anticipates Shot At Being Republic Again
The Central African Republic will be holding a runoff election at the end of the month after none of the prospective presidential candidates received a majority of votes this past Friday. Accusations of fraud have come from about 20 of the 30 candidates who applied for the job, but despite trepidation, the election seemed to…
Saudi Executions and Iran Row
Saudi Arabia started off the new year by executing 47 people in a single day, many of them convicted as terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda and involved in terror attacks during 2003-2006. One of the condemned was a Shia cleric named Nimr al-Nimr, who was convicted of “seeking ‘foreign meddling’ in the kingdom, ‘disobeying’ its rulers,…
The Oregon Militia Standoff
Tl;dr version: A militia group occupied a park office to protest ranchers who were given trumped-up charges for setting controlled fires on land the feds shouldn’t own, but they forgot to bring enough food so PETA send them vegan jerky. A self-described militia organization occupied an office building at the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s…
Insulting the King in the Modern Day
In days gone by, when monarchies were still considered a legitimate form of government and not just a tradition kept alive for the sake of tourist dollars, it seems like it would have made sense that there’d be laws on the books making it illegal to insult the king/queen/royal family. But when America decided that…