The murder of a young journalist has caused the international press to cast Iraqi Kurdistan as a region of insecurity, criminality, and repression, and has undermined the stability Kurdistan needs for success.

The murder of Pamela Waechter tells us thatit istime for national repentance, or in other words national return, from moralizing to morality.

The Obama administration refused to defend me against the lawsuit filed for José Padilla. Now even the liberal Ninth Circuit agrees the suit was frivolous.

Akbar Ganji isbeing tortured in Tehran forexposing the murderous activities of theIslamic republic. The top dog at the United Nations, Kofi Annan, has declined to take a stand.

It was something of a momentous weekend in Arab League history. For the first time ever, the League imposed serious sanctions on one of its own and not for anything related to Israel. Rather, the Arab League voted to impose sanctions on Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria for its continued campaign of repression and murder.

When a publication such as the New York Times gets Baghdad's October murder rates wrong by up to a factor of 28 to 1 and no correction is issued, the consequences are significant.

Obama administration officials have labeled the United Nations’ failure to act on Syria as “outrageous” and a “travesty”.  But that’s about all they’ve done about Syrian dictator Basher el Assad’s wanton murder of thousands of innocent Syrians.

Review of Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran, by Laurence Kelly.