Month: June 2010

For most of this year I have thought that it would prove impossible to pass a climate change bill through the Senate. I even agreed, initially, with the common wisdom that the oil leak in the Gulf made passage less likely...

Ah, Texas, land of opportunity, for good or ill: A US federal judge sentenced a Texas couple Friday for forcing a widowed Nigerian mother of six to serve in domestic servitude, holding her as a slave for over eight...

One of the interesting things about Israel is that it is much more self-critical and contemplative than most people give it credit for. All you really have to do to prove this to yourself is to read their left-wing press....

One result of the BP environmental disaster (it’s more than just a leak, folks) is that BP and other oil companies and oil related companies (think Halliburton) are now upping their flow of cash to politicians and...

Well known U.S. Representative Barney Frank equates Israel’s brutal embargo against the Gaza Strip with the 1980s U.S. sanctions against the South Africa apartheid regime. Can a member of Congress get any more down on his...