I should have sent President Obama a present for his fiftieth birthday last week, but I didn’t. A lot of…
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The Two-State Solution
Try to see it from the other guy’s point of view. He may be wrong. He may be, at least…
Continue reading →Another Dead Journalist
The first email came on May 31 from London’s Pluto Press, saying that one of their authors was missing and…
Continue reading →Strauss-Kahn: From Accused Rapist to Headline Thief
They say no money was paid and no prisoners were exchanged. I’m not talking about Dominique Strauss-Kahn, but about the…
Continue reading →Slowly We Turn
Obama is pulling American troops out of Afghanistan. Or at least he says he is. He also said that American…
Continue reading →Obama: Transparently Opaque
What’s going on with Barack “Open Government” Obama? His Justice Department has prosecuted more people for exposing government secrets than…
Continue reading →Reading, Writing, and Rupert
The Briterati, as I call Britain’s media pontificators on matters spiritual and temporal, are in a spin over reports that…
Continue reading →Lame Horses and Crooked Jockeys: The Republican Nomination Derby
Mitt Romney declared his intention last week to seek the Republican Party’s nomination for president in 2012. Between now and…
Continue reading →Hang the Cyber-Pirates
The other night at the Hotel George V, the American Library in Paris held a fundraising dinner of the city’s…
Continue reading →Likudniks
You have to love Likud, Israel’s governing party. Its politicians may not be as smooth as Labor’s grandees, but they…
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