During the 1960s, the State of Mississippi had race relations so strained, so violent, so primitive that...
Year: 2010
This post is a meditation on the relationship between blogs and the mainstream media in this narrow...
America is used to buying its way to quasi-peace in Iraq and Afghanistan and appears to be...
I’m grateful once again for being nominated for a Brass Crescent award for best non-Muslim blog, which...
Since the latter days of Meyer Lansky till now, Israel seems to embody in the minds of...
Israel’s National Security Council issued its highest-level terror threat (“red-very high-concrete threat based on reliable intelligence”) for...
In this blog, I focus less on purely internal Israeli politics and more on the bigger picture...
I’ve just been reading coverage and an excerpted video of Obama’s Indonesia speech (full text). I’m reminded...
Back in the days when U.S. politicians wanted to prove they were tough on crime there used...
There are some practices of the Israeli government which I find merely offensive. Then there are some...
One of the more riveting and unexpected announcements of this year’s General Assembly (GA) of Jewish federations...
Not content merely to destroy mosques, the Shabak has done one better, it has imprisoned without bail...













