Month: January 2011

This is some seriously shallow analysis: When Obama plays the hawk he also wins friends on the center and the right. We like our presidents to act “against type” — in other words, for Republicans to use carrots...

AlJezeera reporting: Israel has called on the United States and Europe to curb their criticism of president Hosni Mubarak “in a bid to preserve stability in Egypt” and the wider Middle East, an Israeli newspaper...

Trends in party political support since the 2007 general election [Update 1/2/11 9.15PM] A new poll has just been published which shows Fine Gael at 30% (-4) and Sinn Fein returning to an earlier high point of 13% (+3). All...

After all, the only thing Judge Vinson (Federal District Court-FL) did was strike down a law Republicans hate. Trust me on this, that’s the meme we will be hearing from the media in the days to come regarding the decision...

Here is some interesting information from Haaretz in Israel. “The Americans and the Europeans are being pulled along by public opinion and aren’t considering their genuine interests,” one senior Israeli...