Eclipsed by the events in Egypt, news from its little neighbor has not gleaned much notice save for media angst that Egyptian democracy might not be as genial as was the Mubarak dictatorship to the relentless, long-term ethnic cleansing of an indigenous people, the...
Obama’s Chokehold on Left Antiwar Activists
An anti-Obama manifesto of sorts, in the form of a petition, was issued this week, signed by over 150 Left antiwar activists (1). As I read the first paragraph, eager to sign, my hopes were quickly dashed. It reads: “We the undersigned share with nearly...
An Anti-Interventionist Looks at China
Most discussion of China in the mainstream press, especially the left-liberal press, focuses on China's “human rights” record, or freedom of press and speech, or labor issues, or family planning policies. One may argue endlessly about those matters. But they are...
Sarah Palin’s Cross Hairs – and Obama’s
It was a coincidence but an enlightening one. As I heard of Sarah Palin's cartoon cross hairs trained on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and other politicians along with Barack Obama's condemnation of violence, I happened to be tuning into a TV documentary on...
Mutiny Is in Order at The Nation
John Tyner triggered a wave of protest against the Transportation Security Administration when he recorded himself saying, "If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested," pithily paraphrased as "Don't touch my junk!" But this protest was anathema to the thought...
The Democrats’ Day of Reckoning
Why does no one on the Left say it outright ? Obama and his Democratic Party gang should be punished mercilessly in the November elections. If they escape such punishment, then they will continue to break every real and implied promise to their base, and the goals of...
Countdown to Zero – or to War on Iran?
"If I was president Ahmadinejad's national security adviser, and he asked me what to do, I would tell him to acquire a nuclear deterrent." - Professor John J. Mearsheimer, July 7, 2010 John Mearsheimer's imagined advice to Ahmadinejad leads to a simple and obvious...
Servile Journalism for Memorial Day
Sunday's New York Times, gearing up for Memorial Day, carries a leading front-page story direct from the Afghan front, complete with photos. Does it tell of the 1,000 Americans who have perished there in America's longest war, or the unknown number of innocent Afghans...
Compulsory Armageddon
The April 20 Macondo blowout in the Gulf of Mexico is a gift from British Petroleum that keeps on giving: 11 human lives lost, 2,940,000 gallons of oil daily, a 2,500-square-mile oil slick, underwater plumes 10 miles across, softball-size tar balls washing up on...
Petraeus’ Cry
"Jewish Settlers Live High While GIs Die" is what Gen. David Petraeus is saying if we strip away the niceties. Is Petraeus' formulation anti-Semitic? Perhaps it would be better to talk of "Israeli settlers." But that portrayal is not accurate. The...