How Many Shootings?

Six students were shot after getting off a school bus today in Las Vegas. This follows the shooting at two religious organizations in Colorado Springs in which a gunman killed four and wounded five before killing himself on Sunday. And that was less than a week after the shooting at an Omaha mall in which nine, including the shooter, were killed. How many more shootings have to occur before the U.S. talks seriously about gun control?

Backing Mugabe?

You haven’t seen much about Zimbabwe in this space for a while, but here’s something crazy. The Times of London reported last week that the 14-nation Southern African Development Community is backing Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe at the EU-Africa summit on December 8-9. If Zimbabwe is criticized at the summit, the group will pull out. Some may have considered Mugabe to be a great leader in the past, but why these countries are supporting a man who put Zimbabwe’s economy in such dire straits that it is now starving itself to death, is a mystery.