Month: November 2009

When a prognosticator as good as Nate Silver bets money that, not only will Sarah Palin run for the Republican nomination for president in 2012, but that she will win it, you have to take that seriously. In the linked piece,...

Ireland’s new EU Commissioner: Máire Geoghegan-Quinn. An Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, has nominated Máire Geoghegan-Quinn to be the Irish nominee to the next EU Commission.  As she retired from Irish politics...

You may have seen a senator on CSPAN ask for unanimous consent to dispense with the reading of a bill and consider the bill as read. The key term there is ‘unanimous consent.’ Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma intends to...

…..’Settlement policy has changed,’ he said. Jeffrey Blankfort writing for MONDOWEISS took on former President Bill Clinton’s pro-Israel talk at the Saban Forum in Jerusalem a few days ago with the full...

She lay in her bed, with a bible clutched in the hand not encased in a cast, speaking openly about her divorce. Despite her deeply religious views, the divorce seems to not bother her at all, other than strategically. She...