The Spine
North Korea's Uranium Enrichment Centrifuge Plant Is Not Just About Pyongyang. It Is Also About Iran. Does Obama Know ... Or Care?
The last time I looked the president was still trying to entice (or maybe the word I should say “entrance”) the Iranians into...Well, what? As with the North Koreans, Obama still has faith that Tehran -with all the evidence against this proposition notwithstanding- is a rational actor in its drive for nuclear weapons. In fact, given the assumption that atomic war is probably something that Iran would very much like to wage, Dr. A’jad and the ayatollahs are playing the game just right. They have gotten time and more time...and time is not really money. It is power. READ MORE >>
The President's "Spineless Spiral" and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
The Cost (To Us) Even Of Unsuccessful Terror Gets More And More Expensive. And, By The Way, American VIPs Do Not Get Frisked Anywhere.
Judith Miller is one of those reporters who sees the significant detail in almost every story. And the fact is that many Americans don't want to read about...or hear about it. But her latest blog, “Airport Screening Is Just for Us Common Folk,” insists on telling us who doesn't get screened and who does. OK, very top brass never is frisked. READ MORE >>
Human Rights Founder Speaks Out Against The Betrayal of Human Rights By Its “Defenders”
There are a few people who will go down in history as clear-sighted and even heroic founders of the human rights movement which began in the last decades of the twentieth century. Some of them lived in inner exile in the countries that kept them hostage. Some of them lived in external exile longing to go home. A few of them lived in free countries like the United States from which they could carry on their crusades unfettered by cruel regimes and supported openly by the people at home and by their intellectual institutions. READ MORE >>
Terror Risk Index: Surprise! Surprise!
Maplecroft is an intellectually astute and politically unbiased global risk evaluator. Its business is to rank (with analysis) some of the world's major (and troublesome) realities from carbon accounting to human rights. READ MORE >>
The ABC's of O's Asian Diplomacy: An "F"
Aside from offending the folk who get their views from "All Things Considered" and other hothouses of progressive conformity, Judith Miller is a journalist's journalist, a reporter's reporter. Here is her devastating review of the president's trip to Asia. READ MORE >>
The Good Life In Israel...And The Long Life
The U.N. is not a particularly honest source for data. But its annual Development Program Report does have a reputation for probity. READ MORE >>
Thank God One of Us Has A Job: Have Labor Laws Changed?
A Concise Report On What The Polls Say About Obama: "Oy Vey"
The Associated Press, a better and underrated news service than most people realize, has done an analysis of what the people’s votes ten days ago mean. Not about this candidate or that. But about Barack Obama himself. It is not good news, not good news, at all. Just one goody before I go to bed on the shore of the Mediterranean: Majorities disapprove of Obama in all states but California, Delaware, Hawaii and Vermont. READ MORE >>
A Fashionable Radical's Lament: "The Fastidious President"
I wonder why a Yale professor of English, David Bromwich, would put his fastidious critique of our “fastidious” president in the oh, so chic London Review of Books. It certainly isn’t to convince voters. READ MORE >>
