Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Palestinian Ministry of Education released a report this week detailing that 11,923 students in Gaza have been killed by […]
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Morsi provokes Constitutional Crisis in Egypt by recalling Parliament
Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi tried to steal third base on Sunday, announcing that he was calling back into session the dissolved Egyptian parliament. It would […]
Top Ten Surprises on Libya’s Election Day
Most Western reporting on Libya is colored by what is in my view a combination of extreme pessimism and sensationalism. It has been suggested that […]
States with Highest Infant Mortality Rates most Opposed to Obamacare
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Voters in Libya: Indescribable Joy, “Libya is Free”
Saturday morning, 2.8 million registered voters in Libya went to the polls to choose a parliament for the first time since 1965. One woman standing […]
Omar Khayyam (492) “What’s with your supposed zodiac?”
What’s with your supposed zodiac, then, that it is so helpful to the nasty? It bestows on them palatial baths, and mill works, and long walkways to their mansions– […]
Libya’s Elections Hold Vast Promise, Pose Hard Challenges
Libya goes to the polls on Saturday for the first time since 1965. Since in that 1965 election parties were banned, and since King Idris’s […]
States with fewest Passports most Opposed to Obamacare
Only about one third of Americans have passports, and if it weren’t for the post- September 11 requirement that one travel to Canada and Mexico […]
Romney Praised Individual Mandate in 2010
Andrew Kaczynski points out at Buzzfeed that in a 2010 interview, Mitt Romney compared his Massachusetts universal health insurance plan to that of President Obama, […]
Ghoul’s Glossary
Offshore account: Something that a gentleman creates, puts in his wife’s name, and carefully hides when he goes into politics because good breeding forbids him […]