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How Did The Pakistani Terrorist Become A U.S. Citizen? How, For That Matter, Did He Ever Get A Student Visa?
The only good result of this trauma is that nobody died. READ MORE >>
The Government We Deserve
If an election is a battle for the soul of a country, the question one's left asking after this election is whether Britain in 2010 has a soul to battle over. Where were the big ideas? Where was the conviction of high purpose? Where was the heart? READ MORE >>
The TNR Reader’s Guide to the British Elections
Overall Best One-Stop Shop Politics Home. With all the latest polls, headlines, and videos from the campaign trail, PoliticsHome is clearly the best and easiest-to-use election portal. It’s got enough detail to satisfy political junkies and plenty of overview material for novices and newcomers. Runner-up: the BBC. Best Conservative One-Stop Shop READ MORE >>
In a Ditch
And it is running the inquiry, according to a Washington Post dispatch, “because of indications it was connected to international terrorism,” according to a senior law enforcement source. The secretary of homeland security seemed out of the picture, perhaps because her Pollyannaish inclinations were needed for the other disaster on the Gulf Coast. READ MORE >>
Islamic Jihadist Claims (Botched) Attempt On Times Square. Napolitano Says It’s Nothing Other Than A “One-Off.”
Janet Napolitano had another malapropism for a failed catastrophe. This one was about how the Times Square car bomb was a “potential terrorist attack.” Actually, it was a car bomb attempt that failed. The secretary of homeland security, who may have been tired from assuring folk down south that the gargantuan BP oil explosion was being put under control when it really wasn’t, calmed New Yorkers with the solace that there wasn’t “evidence right now that this is anything other than a one-off.” Let’s hope. Of course, a series of “one-offs” would be a series of disasters. READ MORE >>
The Americans like Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. He is an extremely intelligent man, and U.S. personnel have dealt comfortably with him. The Israelis also like Fayyad, even Bibi Netantyahu, who believes that, if a deal can hold, it will be the P.A. PM who will hold it. Fayyad is, I am told by economist friends in Israel, practical, trustworthy, systematic ... and no patsy. READ MORE >>
Samantha And Fern
My old friend Samantha Power, a member of the president’s National Security Council staff, came to dinner last Sunday night after a showing of the movie Sergio, drawn from her book of the same title and directed by Greg Barton. The film is an HBO production which will air on May 6. READ MORE >>
I Confess: I Am A Member Of Opus Judaei
John J. Mearsheimer, who is co-author (with Stephen Walt) of The Israel Lobby, a who’s who they’d rather have called The Jewish Lobby, has finally come clean and done a morphology of American Jewry, splitting it into two schools each personified by perhaps a dozen individual Jews. READ MORE >>
Standing Eight
The last few months have seen a disquieting lull in news of political dissent from Iran. On the surface, at least, Ahmadinejad’s government seems to have outlasted the furor that erupted in the wake of last June’s election. Does this mean that the Green Movement is dead? READ MORE >>
