Various sources are reporting that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will not make an independent bid for president. I, for one, was hoping to witness another blandly “transpartisan,” authoritarian warbot crash and burn à la Rudy Giuliani, but alas. Of course, there’s always John McCain… In December, Glenn Greenwald collected some of Mikey’s greatest hits, [...]
Today is a national holiday here in Taiwan. It is Peace Memorial Day which reflects upon a bloody suppression instigated by the KMT more than 60 years ago. And while you can hear the occasional loud speaker commemorating it in the background, most of the political class is focused on the diplomatic snub a Taiwanese [...]
The Onion succeeds with humor where a serious analysis couldn’t: highlighting the US’s absurd foreign policy regime and the information problem suffered by those who promote and enact foreign interventions. Nation Of Andorra Not In Africa, Shocked U.S. State Dept. Reports
It took more than six years, but at least one Democrat enlisted after 9/11 by the hard-line neo-conservative Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) seems finally to have caught on to the fact that its agenda is something other than what its name suggests. In a statement released by her office Monday, Democratic consultant [...]
Barack Obama reportedly said something very important and long overdue to a group of some 100 Cleveland Jewish leaders on Sunday — that being pro-Likud and being “pro-Israel†are two different things. “I think there is a strain within the pro-Israel community that says unless you adopt a unwavering pro-Likud approach to Israel that you’re [...]
I’ve expressed my disappointment that the Democratic primaries haven’t thrown up a more demographically electable antiwar candidate (here and here). I’ve been accused of over-emphasizing demographics but, judging by Michael Medved’s “The Blue-Eyed Rule,” the opposite may be true: “It turns out that in all of U.S. history, only five presidents had brown eyes – [...]
