I have a fantasy. I am fantasizing that the reason the government of Bahrain has withdrawn its troops from Pearl Square in the capital, Manama, is b…
Read moreI don't post often about the AIDS denialist movement--those who argue that HIV does not cause AIDS--but a particularly egregious example of the d…
Read moreThe Obama administration, led by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has been telling us for days that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak shouldn'…
Read moreEvery day that President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fail or refuse to back the demand of Egypt's pro-democracy movement …
Read moreOne of the more amusing aspects of the revolution in Egypt is the reaction in Israel. While most of the world is rejoicing over the impending overthr…
Read moreYesterday Lebanon introduced a draft resolution into the U.N. Security Council condemning Israeli settlement expansion on the West Bank. The New York…
Read moreAccording to this article in Politico , the bill would make it illegal to carry guns within 1000 feet of many officials. The Republican Congressman…
Read moreThis image was still on Palin's Facebook page as of Saturday. These are the kind of people that President Barack Obama wants to be bipartisan wi…
Read moreSo Massachusetts' highest court, the Supreme Judicial Court, has voided two foreclosures because the banks involved (U.S. Bancorp and Wells Farg…
Read morePlease read two online accounts, one in the New Yorker and the other posted on the excellent blog Mondoweiss , about a recent incident at the Gagosi…
Read moreI'm linking without comment to the most detailed and interesting article I have seen yet on the sexual misconduct allegations against the WikiLe…
Read moreWhat will the Obama Justice Department do now that the Senate has pretty much killed repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"? Will it co…
Read moreNews is breaking today that 27 miners are missing after an explosion in a New Zealand mine . After all the hoopla over the Chilean miners, in which m…
Read moreSomeone has leaked a long-suppressed Justice Department report on this topic to the New York Times , which carries an article about it today. A heav…
Read moreThe photo at right is of Lisa Strombom, a PhD student at Lund University in Sweden. She has just completed and defended (yesterday) a thesis about th…
Read moreYoung Jews Disrupt Netanyahu at Jewish General Assembly from stefanie fox on Vimeo . I'm sure that some critics will try to brand the heroic ac…
Read moreYesterday, September 11, saw three demonstrations in lower Manhattan: One of bigots opposed to the building of an Islamic cultural center at 51 Park …
Read moreThe August 19 New York Review of Books features an important letter from former intelligence officer Fulton Armstrong about how the Bush administra…
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