Nominally Gun Free

Have you ever noticed that most mass shootings occur in places where guns are "banned"? Some people just won't obey a sign, I guess. 

The Incomparable One

When Paul "Bear" Bryant retired as Alabama's football coach, he left with a record that was thought would never be equaled, let alone surpassed. There is no doubt that Bryant remains in the pantheon of coaching greats; yet his tally of championships was in fact eclipsed by Nick Saban. In sport as in life "never" is too long a time to be an apt predictor. 

Running on Time?

Sanchez, the socialist leader of Spain can't seem to make the trains run on time but has managed to have them run into each other, twice now, with fatal effect. Sanchez has turned a beautiful and ordered European nation into a Third World hellhole. 

Israel Election Deadlock

Neither the Netanyahu faction nor the anti-Netanyahu side won sufficient votes to form a government without some sort of coalition drawn in part from the other side. One of the few non-ceremonial duties of Israeli President Isaac Herzog is to pick who will first have a chance to form a government, and due to Herzog's longstanding animus toward Bibi, I am virtually certain that Herzog will give the anti-Netanyahu forces the first crack. These Leftists will try to join with the Arab parties to oust Netanyahu. I pray they fail, because it will weaken the Jewish State immeasurably if Netanyahu is removed in favor of appeasers and Arabs who do not have the best interests of Jews at heart. 

Reformation Not Likely

Just as many were killed at one time in the Catholic Church for "heresy", Islam has had potential reformers rise up, but they tend to be quickly and permanently silenced by the most devoted Muslims who are determined that their faith and practice never be altered. Those who are fanatics in their devotion to Mohammad will broach no compromise either within their religion or with those they consider infidels. 

Trouble with Islam

Many Muslims are perfectly nice, reasonable people. They are hard working and honest and do not want to harm anyone. They are NOT the problem. Some of the most devoted Muslims believe it is their moral obligation to convert by the sword, and to punish and eliminate anyone who disagrees with the way they believe, because those "infidels" are at war with Allah (G-d Himself). There can't be any accommodation of these fanatics because they fervently adhere to their highest religious duty which is to convert or kill us. I and others have contended that a reformation is necessary within Islam to "coexist" with Muslims, but only Muslims have the potential to ever achieve this change, that may well never happen. 

The Paris Game

The NFL was wrong to schedule a football game in a country beset by riots. If the pros wanted to play in a violent city, they could have just left the Raiders in Oakland. After all, even in roiled France, the thugs have not been stealing journalists' cameras at gunpoint yet.