Occidentality (Blogger)

No one should apologize, explicitly or implicitly, for suspecting that Omeed Popal was a lone jihadi. No one. Set the record straight if ...

That anyone in the west can deny what Iran is doing is unconscionable. One can say we ought to negotiate, one can say we ought try to appeas...

Alright, so maybe my theology is a little off, but He can't be too pleased with a people that would spend over $20,000 on something like...

There's a new police scandal in Chicago: A winner of the prestigious Superintendent's Award for Valor was stripped of his police pow...

The Village Voice, of all places, has a lengthy and mostly sympathetic profile of Alex Rodriguez . What I did not realize was just how comm...

Omeed Popal's rampage could have been, but apparently was not, an instance of freelance jihadism. In Washington state there was possibly...

I don't usually follow Washington scandals too closely, especially once I decide that no real legal controversy exists. This is becaus...

Omeed Popal is just a sad and crazy man, and his rampage in San Francisco is just the insane expression of his frustration and isolation . T...

The UN is concerned that Israel's "immoral" use of cluster bombs against Hezbollah has made parts of south Lebanon dangerous a...

The workers at a Chicago Starbucks are now represented by a union that is not actually recognized by anyone. The baristas at the Logan Squa...

A man upset that his boss would not have a sexual relationship with him decided to exact revenge in a peculiar way that ultimately backfired...

The Associated Press would like you to know that Justice Antonin Scalia has had particularly nefarious dealings with all sorts of dark and ...

Curt Schilling got his 3,000th strikeout today against the Oakland A's Nick Swisher. He's one of only 14 pitchers to reach that mi...

Details about the driver in the San Francisco SUV rampage are trickling in . He was, apparently, Omeed Aziz Popal, an Afghani living with h...

Teachers at a public school in suburban Chicago have defined negligence for a future generation of lawyers. Deanna Mendieta, 36, claims in ...

It looks as though the Katie Couric era at CBS news will maintain Dan Rather's exacting standards. You'd think by now CBS would rea...

An SUV driver has finally done what we've always suspected a stereotypical SUV driver might do: A man targeted pedestrians with his spo...

The Mexican judges charged with responding to losing candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's complaints of fraud have eviscerated AMLO...

George Bush will not make the same mistake twice. He, as well as leading Democrats, are racing to the Gulf Coast in solidarity with the vi...

...is a lovely 16-year-old Australian girl . Ayten Ahmet, a Muslim teenager from Melbourne, has advanced to the final round of competition t...