Month: April 2010

Just after I have committed myself to living in my home for the rest of my life and started to renovate and insulate it comes the joyous news by post that the road planning authorities want to drive a 50M wide dual carriageway...

The conventional wisdom is that President Obama’s nominee to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens won’t change the Supreme Court much, since Justice Stevens is part of the Court’s progressive wing and...

Israel has been expanding illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land for decades, but it is only now emerging just how far-reaching this policy is. Israeli building in East Jerusalem as shown above has not skipped a...

Living and working in Washington, it’s not unusual to run in to famous people. No, not "movie star famous." At least not most of the time. But people who hold important positions or people whose work and actions...

While the Daily Caller takes a look at how the Tea Party might affect various Senate races, I’d like to look at a broader set of concerns related to how our midterm elections might shake things up in both major parties....