It wasn't 15 minutes into the coverage of this afternoon's massive and certainly disastrous earthquake just 10 miles from Port-au-Prince on CNN, when Wolf Blitzer cut off the weeping Haitian ambassador to the US to go to a CNN staffer who spent another 2-3 minutes...
I'm not sure why Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D, decided to surprise everyone and announce his retirement Tuesday. I'll admit right up front that I am not an expert on North Dakota politics, nor a thorough observer of the man's nearly-30 year career (17 years in the...
When Historians Against the War was created back in 2003, libertarian historian David Beito was excited about the opportunity to forge alliances across ideological lines and pursue an agenda of peace above all else. Having purged Beito and fellow libertarian Thaddeus...
Normally I'm not a reader of those advice columns in newspapers, but this one caught my eye on the basis of the title alone. Hello Ms. Vicki, My husband is refusing to re-enlist in the Army in March. I think he has lost his mind. He claims that he is tired of all the...
Dear friends: I just learned, late this New Year's Eve, of my friend Mordechai Vanunu's outrageous arrest, facing further imprisonment, for "meeting with foreigners" (of which I have quite openly been one, on several occasions). I plan to do whatever I can to bring...
Wednesday’s Washington Post contains a rundown of the Obama administration’s current thinking on Iran sanctions. The bottom line: administration officials are increasingly open to sanctions, but want to find ways to target the Revolutionary Guard and other...
On Larry King, Ben Stein said that Ron Paul calling the US "occupiers" was "using the same antisemitic argument we've heard over and over." Former game show host and economist Ben Stein first came into prominence when he worked for notorious antisemite Richard...
We give great thanks to our generous benefactor who pledged $5000 to match end-of-the-year donations. In a last rush of donations, we actually reached over $7000, giving us $12,000 to help upgrade equipment. We hope everyone will consider an additional end-of-the-year...
There are so many substantive reasons why Thursday's op-ed in the New York Times by Alan Kuperman was just awful that one hardly knows where to begin. Fortunately, Marc Lynch and Helena Cobban, among others, have covered most of the ground (except, for example, the...
Another year has come and gone, and Norad has once again spent what it assures us is "practically no taxpayer dollars" tracking Santa Claus in his travels and indeed, travails. Last year Santa was conspicuously absent from Iran, with his only stop off briefly reported...
