IDF Briefing
This is an English-language briefing — yes, intended for a European and American audience — from the IDF. You won’t be seeing this on the Daily Kos.
International Politics
There’s Good Guys And There’s Bad Guys
The guys who set up their rocket launching sites in the middle of civilian housing areas, surrounded by noncombatant women and children, and then fire their rockets indiscriminately across their borders into civilian-occupied areas of their neighbors, are the bad… Continue Reading
Conservatives Re-Discover The Importance Of Checks And Balances
John Yoo and John Bolton, two former second-tier Bush Administration officials, who used their time in office to advocate all kinds of unilateral authority for President Bush in the realm of foreign policy. Yoo was the principal author and researcher… Continue Reading
New Year’s Predictions
We’ll revisit this post in a year. Here are some things that I will be looking for in 2009: The United States Federal deficit for calendar year 2009 will exceed $1.5 trillion. A human being will be cloned. There will… Continue Reading
Breakup Of United States Imminent
Six countries where before there was one? That’s what a Russian political scientist says is a little bit more likely than not to happen in the next twenty-four months. My initial reaction is, “This guy doesn’t understand much about American… Continue Reading
Santayana And Monetary Policy
Just a quick note for today — has anyone been watching the currency markets? Not very long ago, a dollar bought you .795 Euro. Today, it buys you .705 Euro. This has been more or less replicated across the globe.… Continue Reading
An Alternative To Torture For Field Investigators
As a further evidence that torture is unnecessary to achieve our foreign policy goals — even the sub rosa gathering of intelligence about enemy movements — I refer you Readers to this piece in today’s WaPo. As it turns out,… Continue Reading
Religous Outrages For Your Holiday Reading Pleasure
Outrage #1: Saudi court tells Muslim girl, aged 8, that she has no right to divorce the 58-year old guy who her father married her off to in exchange for about $9,000. Well, actually, the court told the mother that… Continue Reading
In Which I Mock The Entire Shoe Throwing Incident With A Single Unannotated Photoshop
Creationism And Islam
A professor at Amherst College predicts that the next big fight in the evolution-creationism debate will take place in Islamic circles. Salman Hameed claims that less than half of Muslims are comfortable with the idea of evolution, as compared to… Continue Reading