Month: June 2009

It’s nice of Rick Santorum to provide us with his own idiosyncratic understanding of Twelver Shi’a Islam. Even if he’s right that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s beliefs are a little bit on the loony side...

Words are just words, but deeds are something else again. The Israeli government today announced the building of 300 new houses in a settlement a long way from the Green Line and outside the Wall, near the Palestinian city of...

It must be awkward to be a U.S. Senator who has been caught schtupping a staffer’s wife who also happened to be a paid employee. I mean, it must be awkward to go before thirty-nine other senators (almost all of whom ran...

…both Senators and Congressmen and women, that the majority of us favor a public health plan and are opposed to the way insurance companies suck our money out of health care. If they don’t understand this, then they...

. The chilling secrets of Britain’s War Book which rehearsed the end of the world (Daily Mail) – During the Cold War, civil servants used the book to rehearse what would happen if there was a devastating nuclear...