From today’s New York Times: Secret U.S. Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen The Obama administration’s secret legal memorandum that opened the door to the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical Muslim cleric hiding in Yemen, found that it would be lawful only if it were not feasible to take him alive, [...]

  David Hume, hero of the Enlightenment, father of skepticism, linchpin of democracy and human rights and freedoms, Happy 300th Birthday! Sir Roger has some understanding of how Hume felt when he said this: “Here am I who have written on all sorts of subjects calculated to excite hostility, moral, political, and religious, and yet [...]

The Pope shouldn’t resign. He should remain in charge of the whole rotten profiteering, woman-fearing, guilt-gorging, child-raping institution while it tumbles

When these Indian boys find mixed religion couples they bash them, sometimes with a rock to the head. Now that’s the way to prove your views are correct!

It sends a shiver of disgust down the spine hearing Gordon Brown trying to put moral distance between himself and the million or so Iraqis he has helped to kill

Transparency International has released its Corruption Perceptions Index for 2009. There are some very surprising results

John Howard is against a Bill of Rights and that’s enough for us. The little shit has always been so wrong that anything he is against is certain to be right

Sir Roger has gathered an enormous, highly professional cast to enact his latest post – “Burma Railroaded”- for the ears of his loyal audience.

This stylised footstamping over Burma’s treatment of Suu Kyi by international dandies playing an archaic game by pre-Enlightenment rules makes us sick.

Jon Stewart’s Daily Show welcomes back ‘the most interesting man in the world’, the Big Man, Bill Clinton, fresh from his Korean triumph. Fox doesn’t like it.