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Media
Parody site ‘National Report’
We’ll keep it short here, folks. Don’t be fooled by posts at this website. I’m in several online forums in…
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Foreign Affairs
Great news: U.S. has security plan for the West Bank!
One has to be sparing with exclamation points, but this one’s a lollapalooza. A dilly! A doozie. A big honkin’…
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Foreign Affairs
Kerry tries desperately to force deal of century on Iran
Objectively, the deal being offered to Iran in the talks in Geneva is a very good one, for Iran. Iran…
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Politics
GOP: Polls and hinge points of history
What does it mean that recent polls show 7 in 10 respondents think Republicans are putting their agenda ahead of…
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Economy
On the job but not getting paid?
I’m very glad Congress and the president decided to make sure the uniformed military will get paid during the government…
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Foreign Affairs
Obama’s Cuban missile crisis
What a coup it would be, for Team Obama to turn two weeks of dithering and squandering American credibility on…
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Foreign Affairs
Syria: Now, the run-up to whatever ‘it’ will or won’t be
What the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has voted to authorize is a military operation not to exceed 90 days in…
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Foreign Affairs
No joke: Congress should vote ‘present’ on Syria
You don’t need to be a foreign affairs expert to judge how feckless the president is on his Syria policy. …
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Economy
Rock, hard place, Syria
Through his latest action, calling for a vote of Congress on a strike against the Assad regime – but not…
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Foreign Affairs
The unbearable passivity of triangulated policies that require 'slam dunk' intelligence
It’s a percussion symphony out there. The drumbeat of stalwart European readiness to strike Syria has become unsteady – boy,…
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Foreign Affairs
The perils of Barack
So here we are. Americans elected Barack Obama, and now he appears to be within a breath of embroiling us…
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Foreign Affairs
Britain taking lead on Syria?
One of these days, the mainstream media will catch up with reality and start reporting things as they are. In…
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Foreign Affairs
Obama on Syria: Low-quality 'jaw-jaw'
It being the silly season in Washington, there had to be a rumor of war. Well, a rumor of a…
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Foreign Affairs
Egypt: This is big
One way to gauge the import of the conflict erupting in Egypt is by looking at the character of media…
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Foreign Affairs
A unified theory of Benghazi
There are several threads that converge in the emerging drama of the Benghazi attack on 9/11/2012. One relates to the…
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Media
Associated Press admits inserting text covering Obama's 'gulf states' gaffe
When is a gaffe not a gaffe? When the Associated Press covers it up. On Thursday, the AP, otherwise known as…
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Foreign Affairs
U.S., setting example for Israel, releases Taliban terrorists
On 28 July, Jonathan Tobin asked, at Commentary, if the U.S. would release terrorist killers as a precondition for talks…
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Foreign Affairs
Morsi down, Saudis up in battle for Syria
Mohammed Morsi’s call for holy war in Syria spooked the Egyptian military, and it alarmed the Saudis too. I suspect…
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Foreign Affairs
It’s on: Muslim Brotherhood influence rejected in two nations
It’s a little early to predict the exact outcome of the Morsi-military smackdown underway in Egypt. (Update as this goes…
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Foreign Affairs
U.S. in Afghanistan: Of course we negotiate with terrorists
In a sign of the surreality into which we have descended under the Obama administration, the media have been reporting…
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Law and Government
Yes, this is Watergate, the remake
Poor, misguided Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service’s director of exempt organizations. She thinks she’s done nothing wrong, even though…
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Media
Escalation in the War on Fox News: Criminalize their reporters
The White House doesn’t like Fox News. They don’t like media criticism in general, but they have a special dislike…
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Foreign Affairs
Latest reports: Israel has now attacked a facility in Syria
Wars and rumors of wars… OK, let’s sort this out, at least until the next update. (This is how intelligence…
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Foreign Affairs
Interdicting arms to Hezbollah? New report of Israeli air strikes in Syria
The latest report that the Israeli Air Force has conducted an attack in Syria comes not from the Syrian rebels…
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Foreign Affairs
Just a reminder: Military readiness affects the viability of Syria operations too
After U.S. officials agreed last week that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons on its people, politicians and pundits…
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Foreign Affairs
Wrong, hackneyed, overworked: Beyond the usual analysis of “China and North Korea”
Is there any piece of received wisdom more universally invoked than the inane piety that China wants to calm North…
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Foreign Affairs
Observations on Obama’s trip to Israel: Apologies (Part 1)
Obama went to Israel, and, as expected, gave some bland speeches and didn’t suggest putting anything new on the table…
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Foreign Affairs
A poignant moment
No one seems to have recognized what a sad moment this must be for President Obama. Remember when he “jokingly”…
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Economy
Dead in the water: Obama’s military and the Iran nuclear threat
Two to three years ago, the United States Department of Defense had enough military forces on station in, or readily…
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