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“Selfie” Non Scandal Proves Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
December 13, 2013
In an event that was not at all controversial this week, and barely, maybe for a hot second or two while cruising through Twitter, counts as interesting, President Obama was photographed taken a “selfie” of himself and the British and Danish prime ministers at Nelson ...

Changes in Drone Policy Starting to Show Effects
December 10, 2013
George W. Bush’s fourth term is going about as well as could be expected. The United States is finalizing an agreement — not without some obstacles — to keep troops and the federal checkbook in Afghanistan through at least 2024. The military tribunals at ...

Temporary Amnesia Strikes Some upon Death of Nelson Mandela
December 06, 2013
Our major publications were ready for the death of Nelson Mandela. When it came yesterday, at age 95—probably later than many, including Mandela himself, expected—we got to see the editorial plans they’d had for years in the making move into action. Time has ...

British Government Has Pinpointed the REAL Problem
December 05, 2013
News flash: Hapless, blundering, useless fools think it’s very dangerous to tell the public what they actually do. Al-Qaeda is a healthy, thriving, voting-age young adult. Born in the late 1980s, the movement bombed American embassies in 1998, attacked an American warship ...

The Swan Song of the Neocon
November 27, 2013
A diplomatic deal with any terms of any importance anywhere in the world has been made, and so the neoconservatives are in full force to cry “Munich.” Good for them. If that’s what they enjoy, let them enjoy themselves. Because they matter not in the slightest ...

Many Opinions but Little Nuance on Iran Deal
November 26, 2013
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) can move the world, if you give him a big enough lever and a place to stand. Just ask him. Objecting to the interim deal with Iran that trades modest sanctions relief for limits on that country’s uranium enrichment, Graham told CNN that the Obama ...