I'm no scholar on Honduras, to say the least, so I'll assume the basic facts regarding recent events are in accord with this opinion piece calling for ousted President Manuel Zelaya's reinstatement: Zelaya's fatal mistake was in organizing a de facto referendum to...
President Obama issued his statement on the United Nations International Day in Support of Torture Victims. I wonder if Obama's ghostwriter was wearing hip boots when this statement was put together. The opening of his statement could have been recycled from the...
A piece we ran in Viewpoints yesterday, "Iran’s Election Drama More Elaborate Than You Think," indicated that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a former member of the Revolutionary Guards. This was incorrect (see this for details). We regret the error. On a...
"Who is at the helm? The way Iran is acting up, and what about weather catastrophes? Hopefully no decision has to be made." - South Carolina state Sen. Jake Knotts (R-Lexington), Tuesday, on then-missing Gov. Mark Sanford
Looking at Margaret and Jason's close monitoring of the continued bloodshed in Iraq-- something like 300 Iraqis dead in bombings since last Monday -- it's becoming clear that nothing short of a nuclear bomb dropped on the Green Zone will get administration...
National Review’s Rich Lowry: A major irony in Bush’s policy is that Iran appears to be much better primed than Iraq for a transition to democratic government (although Iraq is managing it anyway). It hasn’t been devastated by sanctions and war the way Iraq was;...
Of course, any act against the United States government is an act of terrorism. Just read the first graf of this Jeff Stein blog post: He may yet turn out to be the avatar of Iranian democracy, but three decades ago Mir-Hossein Mousavi was waging a terrorist war on...
Daniel Halper writes in The Weekly Standard today: On “The Early Show†this morning, Obama said that “what we can do is bear witness and say–to the world that the, you know, incredible demonstrations that we’ve seen is a testimony to–I think what Dr. King...
Like Justin, I'm pulling for Iran's Greenies. No, Mousavi's worldview and goals aren't radically different from Ahmadinejad's; if they were, his candidacy wouldn't have been approved by the clerics. Nor are the people out in Tehran's streets good little junior...
Remember Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party who made a big splash four years ago when he began raving about the wonders of the Bush Doctrine? Probably not, to the relief of many a neocon. He was an embarrassing ally for the warbots...
