Month: May 2009

Sexual Weirdos

This is a truly weird article. I can’t imagine having that kind of view of human sexuality and marriage. What is most appalling to me, though, isn’t even the view that marriage exists to protect females from sexual...

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Netanyahu throws Obama a bone

As if to appease Barak Obama after their meeting in the White House, Bibi Netanyahu announced the dismantling of a single illegal outpost of 20 or so settlers on the West Bank, which was immediately reconstructed, according to...

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Israeli Settlements

Israeli settlements in territory they captured in the 1967 war are intended to make it politically impossible for any Israeli government to relinquish that territory. There isn’t any other purpose to building these illegal...

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Credit card industry learns nothing.

Saw this at Reuters (new window) and thought this was rather amusing as well as kind of unbelievable at the same time. From the article: Robert Hammer, who advises card companies as chairman of RK Hammer Investment Bankers in...

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It’s Gut-Check Time

Politicizing national security is something everyone is supposed to be against. Naturally, it’s impossible to avoid politicizing policies that you oppose and want to change, but no one really thinks it is in our interests...

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