Oriental despotism and Islam
Michael Curtis is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of political science at Rutgers University. He has also served as president of American Professors for Peace in the Middle East and as editor of the Middle East Review.
Professor Curtis is the author of approximately 30 books. His latest, a prodigious piece of [...]
The Curious Case of the Omitted Admission
The Congressional Budget Office — in a futile attempt to make up for outing the real costs of ObamaCare in a previous report — has just attempted to push the program forward by asserting that the existence of a “government option” wouldn’t cause any real mischief:
President Obama and his Democratic allies, scrambling to broker a [...]
HeistWatch - Day 1
Day 1 after the Washington Times reported that the chief of staff to impeached Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, Enrique Flores Lanza, may have stolen millions of dollars in cash from the Central Bank of Honduras, three days before Zelaya himself was arrested for treason…
So far, I have found only one newspaper that has even so [...]
Coup on You!
In mounting desperation, Barack H. Obama and his band of merry men now demand the restoration of Manuel “Mel” Zelaya as dictator of Honduras on the same time schedule as the typical “revolutionary” (radical leftist, that is) Obamic legislation — e.g., government-run health care, crippling energy production, and shooting trillions of dollars of Monopoly money [...]
Reuters Still Stuck on "Coup"-pid
I reckon the antique media still thinks they’re living back in the days of “Uncle Walter.”
Reading this Reuters story about “talks” between negotiators for deposed leftist wannabe-dictator and the legitimate government of Honduras is a little like reading Pravda: It all seems perfectly sane, perfectly rational — but originating from a long time ago [...]
The Curious Case of Tegucigalpa’s Traveling Traitor
I highly recommend the excellent Los Angeles Times commentary-analysis by filibustered D.C. Circus nominee Miguel Estrada; he makes an excellent legal (and moral) case that:
The ouster of former Honduran President (and now accused traitor) Manuel Zelaya was perfectly legal (and a darned good idea), not only in accord with the Honduran constitution, but also at [...]
