Nowadays, it appears mandatory that at least one movie built around the murderous heroics of US Special Forces gets an Oscar nod. Last year, it was Zero Dark Thirty. This year, there are two nominations in the “Special Forces Shoot Brown Guy in Head� category. Captain Phillips, the Somali pirate drama, garnered a nomination for... Read More

The foreign leaders are dropping like flies -- to American surveillance. I’m talking about serial revelations that the National Security Agency has been spying on Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, two Mexican presidents, Felipe Calderón (whose office the NSA called “a lucrative source�) and his successor Enrique Peña Nieto, at least while still a candidate, and... Read More