The Skeptical Bureaucrat

I think there must be something about being in a mob that makes a person stupid, or stupider. Take, for instance, those two Iranian students...

The casual manner in which the University of California campus police sprayed those protesters reminds me of myself watering the shrubs arou...

The U.S. Peace Corps has experienced a large number of assaults on its volunteers overseas, especially sexual assaults, more than one thousa...

H/T to gwb for sending me a link that led to this tidbit in a Financial Times article about ongoing political repression in Egypt - Egypt ...

Consulate General Dubai used to be embedded in a small part of this high-rise office tower, which I believe is the largest and most populou...

Photo - The Archer K. Blood American Center Library at the American Center, Dhaka, Bangladesh (from Embassy website) Consume...

Onyango "Uncle Omar" Obama, that distant-but-not-distant-enough Kenyan relative of President Obama, appeared in Framingham Mass D...