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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 25, 2011 7 Comments
K. McCaffrey — Since the 1980s, when one third of their population fell below the poverty line, the nation of Ireland has seen tremendous growth. This is a testament to the glory of a nation of people who had been purged of autonomy for hundreds...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 15, 2011 11 Comments
From ABC News (of all places!): As the 2012 presidential campaign kicks into gear, President Obama’s White House media operation is demonstrating an unprecedented ability to broadcast its message through social media and the Internet, at times doing an end-run around the traditional press. […]...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2011 6 Comments
… “You don’t know how lucky you are, boy Back in the USSR, yeah” It was just a song.  But to Brian Leiter, a law and philosophy professor at the University of Chicago who frequently takes swipes and swings at conservatives, it had a ring...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2011 2 Comments
I have kept away from writing about “news” generated from WikiLeaks disclosure of stolen U.S. diplomatic cables.  One of the main problems with using stolen diplomatic cables is that one is unlikely to get the full story in a single cable, leaving the ground clear...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2011 10 Comments
Via The Telegraph: A “Black Widow” suicide bomber planned a terrorist attack in central Moscow on New Year’s Eve but was killed when an unexpected text message set off her bomb too early, according to Russian security sources. The unnamed woman, who is thought to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2011 7 Comments
The lame duck rush to ratify the New START Treaty is becoming an example of fools rushing in. One of the sticking points for Republicans opposed to the Treaty (13 Republicans voted in favor of the Treaty) was that the Preamble language seemed to link...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2010 8 Comments
That is a name I had not heard in decades. When I studied in the Soviet Union many of the East European students loved the group Boney M and were surprised that none of the Americans in our group had heard of it.  To them,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 24, 2010 2 Comments
Remember how important it was to pass New START during the lame duck session, rather than waiting until January?  We were told that anything less would have angered the Russians and, in Harry Reid’s words, put nukes in the hands of terrorists.  Any attempt to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 20, 2010 0 Comments
The lame duck session has seen Harry Reid at his best or worst, depending upon your perspective. Reid held back a slew of substantial legislation to the last two weeks in order to try to ram through measures which, in a rational world, would have...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 15, 2010 5 Comments
Ann Heller sat down with Nick Gillespie to talk about her recent well-received biography of Ayn Rand. I think Heller “gets it”, she “[thinks] the core of [Rand’s] appeal is her deep love of freedom … old fashioned American values, hard work, application of your...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2010 6 Comments
When the story broke last June about the arrest of 10 Russian sleeper agents, none of whom seemed to be in a position to do any real damage, many people laughed at the supposed ineptitude of the Russian secret services, and joked about femme fatale Anna Chapman....

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on November 20, 2010 2 Comments
On Thursday evening the Cornell speaker series entitled “Freedom & Free Societies” hosted Richard Fontaine. Fontaine is probably best known for being John McCain’s foreign policy advisor for about five years, including 2008, but he also boasts a post at the Center for a New...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2010 10 Comments
Once again, Barack Obama is creating a phony crisis to rush a major legislative vote without having done the preliminary legwork to address Republican concerns. Think Stimulus and Obamacare.  This time, it arguably is the most important vote, the Senate ratification of the new START...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2010 11 Comments
The Stuxnet malware apparently was designed to damage or destroy industrial system controllers of the type used in Iran’s nuclear program. It is too early to assess what, if any, damage has taken place in Iran because of the secrecy of the Iranian regime.  Based...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2010 13 Comments
Sam Stein writes at HuffPo today that increasingly libertarian social attitudes in the Republican Party combined with the failure of Democrats to live up to campaign promises, has led Democratic Party insiders to worry that “the Obama administration risks losing the gay rights community (or at least...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2010 17 Comments
Remember Joe Biden’s comment that hostile forces would test Obama in his first six months? Well, whatever tests have come before, the big test is about to take place, as Russia, Iran and Turkey are uniting to break American influence in the greater Middle East...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2010 9 Comments
There is a must read article at City Journal by author Claire Berlinski, A Hidden History of Evil – Why doesn’t anyone care about the unread Soviet archives?: In the world’s collective consciousness, the word “Nazi” is synonymous with evil. It is widely understood that...
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