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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 29, 2011 4 Comments

Chavez is on his deathbed. (But, of course, the state is in denial.) I don't care much at all for Francis Fukuyama, but his 2006 write-up on Chávez's ascent in WaPo was pretty good. Or, at least, clear: Latin America has indeed witnessed a turn to this...

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Posted by Matthew Knee on September 29, 2011 15 Comments

Fox News Reports: An Iranian pastor who has refused to renounce his Christian faith faces execution as early as Wednesday after his sentence was upheld by an Iranian court. Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who maintains he has never been a Muslim as an adult, has Islamic ancestry and...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 29, 2011 10 Comments

During a United Nations General Assembly summit on non-communicable diseases -- a discussion that included diet and eating habits -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said “governments at all levels must make healthy solutions the default social option." Bloomberg is a fascist, but we've known...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 28, 2011 45 Comments

What's doing? Palin's appearance on Greta last night certainly leaves the impression she's not running, and the reasons she articulated may very well be what she is thinking, not just cover talk: If someone doesn't deeply want it, they should not run. Chris Christie (regardless of his...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 28, 2011 8 Comments

From Caroline Glick, in a must read post: It's my prayer for coming year that US Jewish community will act with the majority of their fellow Americans to defend Israel. What's most stunning is that such a prayer even is needed. Update: I should have pointed out that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 28, 2011 6 Comments

No one could have seen this coming. Via The Telegraph: Diplomatic efforts are under way to revive six-nation talks on the North's nuclear disarmament. South Korea and the United States have held preparatory  discussions with the North since July. But Peter Hughes said senior officials there had told...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 28, 2011 21 Comments

At a recent Obama campaign event masquerading as a town hall, an ex-Google executive begged Obama to raise his taxes, to which Obama responded with an Elizabeth Warren-like argument: It turns out the guy was a plant by a group called the Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 28, 2011 8 Comments

Obama gave a good speech at the U.N. last week, I credited him with that. But his Israel policy still encourages Palestinian intransigence, as evidenced by his demands that Israel cease building new housing units in the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo.  Gilo occupies a strategic hilltop...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 28, 2011 14 Comments

On Saturday night Morgan Freeman was the winner of the first ever Saturday Night Card Game Readers' Choice Award, for his rant on the Piers Morgan show about Tea Party racism. Now a Tea Party activist has written Freeman an open letter inviting Freeman to a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 28, 2011 5 Comments

This van was spotted in Clear Brook, Virginia by the husband of frequent commenter DINORightMarie. The van was covered on multiple sides, so we'll split it into two posts.  Here's the full rear view, followed by an enlargement of my favorite: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 27, 2011 15 Comments

Self-made millonaire or billionaire, and now most hated person at Firedoglake, Ted Leonsis wants Obama to stop with the class warfare: Someone needs to talk our President down off of this rhetoric about good vs. evil; about two classes and math. Our country was founded on the premise...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 27, 2011 18 Comments

ABC has an exclusive: video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Some exclusive. In fact, I ran a post on it earlier this month, Let the Libya “unexpected” consequences begin: Such as a “no fly zone” over all of northern Africa, spreading across the globe, because while we broke Muammar Gaddafi’s...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 27, 2011 28 Comments

There has been a ton of speculation that Chris Christie may run for president after his speech at the Reagan Library.  Now that the hype about Perry and Bachmann has dwindled, the first-term NJ Gov would generate a storm of media attention. I would be ecstatic if...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 27, 2011 16 Comments

My guess is that none of these dancers has ever been a "working people."  (h/t @jpodhoretz) I would not be surprised to see this troupe at an Aroma Cafe soon.  Hurry up kiddies, rehearsals have started already....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 27, 2011 23 Comments

I've been meaning to post about Obama's speech to the Congressional Black Caucus, now famous for its "stop complainin" verbiage: "I expect all of you to march with me and press on.  Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop ...

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