Is Greece Our Future?
Greece’s financial collapse is turning into theater of the absurd. Today, public employees in Athens staged an occupation of a government building to dramatize their demand that they be maintained at taxpayer expense, in the style to which they have become accustomed, forever. Even though there is no more money:
Dozens of civil servants [...]
The Conscience of the New York Times
New York Times “public editor” Clark Hoyt searched the conscience of the New York Times the other day and found it wanting. (His own came up clean as a whistle, though.) Is retaining the services of Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner moral, he wondered—spurred by protests from Electronic Intifada and FAIR—when Mr. Bronner’s son, who [...]
Obama to Use ‘Targeted’ Dithering While Iran Builds Nuclear Bombs
Jennifer Rubin reacts to the good news/bad news from the WaPo today that the Obama administration is getting ready to impose sanctions on Iran. Of course that’s the good news part; the bad news is that “they are doing so in a half-hearted fashion without giving up the pipe dream of re-engaging a barbaric regime [...]
Kerry Files Formal Request to Visit Iran?
So say the Iranians. Of course, they’d probably say anything right now to try and get back just a little bit of the international legitimacy that the regime has been bleeding with each video of Iranian protesters being murdered in the streets. Still, ever since Josh Rogin first floated the rumor that Kerry was trying [...]
(Video) Krauthammer’s Take on Dear Leader’s Iran Statement
Krauthammer, on Fox News Special Report, ripped Barack Obama for his “flaccid, meaningless” words on the Iranian freedom protests:
“The regime is weakening. This is a hinge in history. Everything in the region with change if the regime is changed. Obama ought to be strong out there in saying it’s an illegitimate government; we stand shoulder [...]
Obama’s “Deep Admiration” for Iranian Protesters
Earlier today, the President emerged from his Hawaii vacation to discuss the failed terror attack last week. He also raised the protests that occurred in recent days in Iran, saying:
“The United States joins with the international community in strongly condemning the violent and unjust suppression of innocent Iranian citizens, which has apparently resulted in detentions, [...]
