Month: January 2013

. Final Tally a Stalemate 60-60 {Update2} Kadima party just met the threshold for two mandates and shifts the final result to a tie 60-60. According to a tally of 99.5% of the votes, the results are as follows: • Likud-Yisrael...

After the inauguration speech, I didn’t really feel like writing…just watching. What surprises me about the speech is that so many liberals found it surprising. I didn’t really ever think any differently about...

. ‘Cash from Doha’ (France24) – The first accusations of Qatari involvement with Tuareg separatists and Islamist groups came in a June 2012 article in respected French weekly the Canard Enchainé [EN]. In a...

. See earlier BooMan’s frontpage diary – Carnage in Algeria. It’s early, yet, but it looks like the Algerian government screwed the pooch and went and got a bunch of Western oil/gas workers killed who were...

Here is the transcript of President Barack Obama’s Second Inaugural Address. I will have some thoughts below: January 21, 2013 Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery Inaugural Address Monday, January...