Month: November 2017

Prime Minister Theresa May of the United Kingdom was questioned in Jordan about President Trump’s decision to post links to incendiary anti-Muslim YouTube videos on his Twitter feed: Asked whether she would fire someone...

Not too long ago, reports surfaced that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had nearly resigned at some point over the summer over quarrels with the president on our policies toward Qatar and Iran among other things. It became...

To avoid blog harassment by the few, here my reply to das monde… Dems are not even trying to spotlight truly important stuff, since Dukakis or so. Rather, they are earnest collaborators to a flow of distractions....

Supplemental to Frank Schnittger’s new diary … Comment on a David Aaronovitch column by Frank Schnittger Timesonline, 2007-06-02 [David Aaronovitch was one of the participants in the Doha debate; he wrote an online...

Cross-posted from the European Tribune It is now ten years to the day that I published my first diary here, entitled “OOPS what am I doing here?”.  In it I asked: Are we all frustrated journalists here, failed...