Month: December 2010

. How the mayor (of a Nazareth suburb) stole Christmas NAZARETH-ILLIT (blog 972+) – Nazareth, Jesus’s hometown, is today a bustling city of over 70,000 people. The people of Nazareth are termed “Arab citizens...

. An Irishman abroad tells it like it is !! 🙂   Lessons not Learned from Asia Fifteen years earlier, the export-led economies of East Asia, then at their apogee, were at a similar crossroads…and took the wrong turn....

Nice touch. “We are not a nation that says don’t ask don’t tell. We’re a nation that says out of many we are one.” – President Barack Obama, December 22, 2010, before signing the repeal of the...

The New York Times makes a funny: Civil liberties and human rights groups — many of whom dislike any policy that involves holding prisoners without trial — reacted with ambivalence to the report that the Obama team has been...

The Senate passed a test-vote on START ratification with 67 votes. What this means is that the president is going to succeed in his number one priority foreign policy item in his first two years in the White House. He also just...