Flu-Induced Haze
I’ve been feeling awful and have figured out that it’s not any kind of food poisoning, but a touch of flu. And I hate the flu. I still had meetings…
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The Knight in the Panther’s Skin
I’m pleased to have been introduced on this trip to the great Georgian epic poem by Shota Rustaveli, The Knight in the Panther’s Skin, which I bought yesterday at a…
Homosexuality in the Arab World
While checking the site Mideastyouth for information on the suppression of Bahraini bloggers, I also found an interesting interview and discussion of the treatment of homosexuality in the Arab world.
An Interrogation in the Middle East
I have just been informed by a university student who attended our conference in Cairo this August that he has been told to report tomorrow to the prosecutor’s office for…
A Great End to an Exhilirating Conference
I’m really happy with the conference on “Freedom, Commerce, and Peace: A Regional Agenda.” We had Georgians and Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians, Armenians and Azeris, Iranians and Iraqis, Romanians and…
The conference is going well…
I’m running up on a long-term sleep deficit and haven’t had a moment to myself until now (but only a moment), but the conference on “Freedom, Commerce, and Peace: A…
Advancing Freedom Further
I’m in Tbilisi for our conference on “Freedom, Commerce, and Peace: A Regional Agenda.” It starts tomorrow evening, but many of the participants are arriving tonight (Tbilisi is a great…
Putin Drops Another Shoe
A Chill Wind over Russia Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch failed “to keep their papers in order” and are forced to stop all activities in the Russian Federation. Watchdog…
Selectively Anti-War and Eagerly Pro-War
One of the loudest advocates of the war in Chechnya outside of Russia is none other than the chief screecher at antiwar.com, Justin Raimondo, the man who swoons over Vladimir…
Divided Government
Overall, I’m rooting for the non-Republicans in this Congressional election. GOP control of the government has given us an explosion of federal spending, a gutting of the Constitutional restraints on…