Those pesky Jews are at it again, at least if we believe the Egyptian Supreme Command. At the end of the Wall Street Journal’s article on this weekend’s clashes in Cairo is a quote from a statement by Egypt’s Supreme Council of Armed Forces explaining who, exactly, was behind the violence: On Monday, an anchor […]

Gilad Shalit appears set to finally come home as part of a prisoner swap between Israel and Hamas. PM Netanyahu told members of his cabinet that this is “the best deal that we could have gotten at this time”, but the long term consequences seem more likely to undermine Israeli security than to enhance it. […]

Innocent until proven guilty say the lawyers – and as a matter of law that is true of those accused in Iran’s alleged assassination plot on the Saudi ambassador to the US. The story is still fresh and without all the facts, but whether the ball ends in foul or fair territory, US-Iranian relations are […]

Environmentalism has been the bane of the Obama administration from the beginning.  The Copenhagen summit, the cap and trade fiasco, Solyndra: every time the administration tries to go green, it comes up with egg on its face. The Obama administration’s environmental issues continue to grow. With the Solyndra failure looming large over the administration’s attempts […]

Silvio Berlusconi is a political survivor without peer, but his time as Italian Prime Minister might finally be coming to an end. The FT has the story: Italy’s 75-year-old prime minister stalked grim-faced out of the chamber with calls for his resignation ringing in his ears after his coalition failed by just one vote to […]

Vinod Khosla is a renowned investor in green tech and a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, one of the most successful technology companies in the world. Yet he thinks environmentalists are “chasing the wrong answers” and calls the Prius a “greenwashing”. In an interview with the Atlantic, Khosla explains that the answer to saving the planet […]

As a horrified world watched coverage of Christian demonstrators dying at the hands of Egyptian soldiers this week, it underlined the possibility that the Arab Spring might permanently change Egypt after all. Coptic Christians, who have lived in the Land of the Pharaohs since Biblical times, are making an Exodus in all directions. The La […]

We are now entering what could be an era of great municipal bankruptcies. Bloomberg reports that Pennsylvania’s capital city of Harrisburg has just filed for bankruptcy, facing a crushing debt burden and threats of a state takeover of its finances: The state capital of 49,500 faces a debt burden five times its general-fund budget because […]

A few days ago I was with a group of people when the topic of the Armenian genocide came up. The immediate reason for the topic to come up was the action of several European legislatures to declare that the events of 1915 in Turkey should indeed be called a genocide (there has been a […]

Tick, tick, tick. We are down to the final 12 speakers of the final parliamentary session before the (hopefully) final and (probably second to the last) vote in the last parliament on the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF), the €440 billion bailout fund to hold the eurozone together. The fate of the EFSF has come […]