Month: July 2015

For a while there I was beginning to doubt that it would be possible to strike a deal with Iran that all five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council (plus Germany) could agree to, but somehow Secretary of State John...

Sorry. I’ve been busy. I’ll get a free moment in an hour or two. In the meantime, I think this is appropriate:

     Every political news story has a narrative arc: Initial reports followed by subsequent reports followed by what-it-all-means analyses followed, sooner or later, by diminished interest and then inevitable...

A NYTimes article, Marine Commander’s Firing Stirs Debate on Integration of Women in Corps, is a short profile of Lt. Col. Germano and some of the issues involved in her firing. When Lt. Col. Kate Germano took command of...

Obama took away Israel’s threat to bomb Iran in 2012 … Netanyahu wasn’t in a thankful mood and continued his rampage in the region by punishing Hamas in a devastating bombardement a year ago. President Obama...