Some straight talk about the costs and benefits of invading Syrian and Pakistan: not much benefit and a lot of costs.

A US Federal Court in Miami convicted Charles “Chuckie” Taylor Jr. of torturing people while he lived in Liberia.

The UN General Assembly voted 185-to-3, with 2 abstentions, to call on the US to end the embargo of Cuba. The American ineffective 47-year embargo only hurts US credibility; it has not ended communism in Cuba.

Pakistan today demanded that the US stop missile strikes in its country. Pakistan says that it undermines popular support for the US. In the US, instead of discussing the benefits and costs of invading Pakistan, we are now talking about the definition of “socialist.”

Private citizens in Columbia are urging FARC, leftist rebels hiding in the mountains, to discuss a prisoner swap deal. FARC has agreed to have a dialogue.

Maldives is an island nation in the Indian Ocean of 300,000 people–mostly Sunni Muslim. In this nation’s first democratic election, Mohamed “Anni” Nasheed defeated longtime ruler Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.

This video shows how a touchscreen voting machine can be a nightmare. A county clerk tries to show that it is absurd that calibration problems would cause miscast votes, but it still has problems after it is “calibrated.”

A GITMO judge threw out the “confession” of a teenager accused of throwing a grenade at Americans in Afghanistan. The confession was obtained by Afghani troops after they threatened to kill the kid and his family if he did not admit to throwing the grenade.

The US attack in Syria apparently was highly successful–our forces brought back the body of a terrorist leader. Why is the American public still talking about faux-socialism instead of the benefits and costs of invading Syria and Pakistan?