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Template I give up. The new templates I tried just weren’t working for large numbers of readers. In particular, webtv and palm users complained. For those who liked the new settings, and there were apparently many, I’d just like to point out that if you use Firefox you can set the font, size, etc. easily […]

New Template Whenever I have changed my template it has been traumatic for some readers, and I deeply apologize. Some are complaining about the font size being too small. I will try to fix that. But, in this day and age you don’t need me to fix it for you. In I.E. go to “view” […]

Wolfie Soprano Paul Wolfowitz pleaded his case before the executive board of the World Bank on Tuesday. The Bush administration continued to try to keep him in office. Why? Why try so hard? It is clear that Wolfowitz does not have the confidence of his staff, and could not possibly hope to be an effective […]

Cole on L’Affaire Wolfowitz My column, “Wolfowitz’s Fatal Flaw,” is available at Salon.com. Excerpt: ‘ The small morality play unfolding at the World Bank tells us something significant about how the United States became bogged down in the Iraq quagmire when Wolfowitz was highly influential at the Department of Defense. The simple fact is that […]

Protest over Detention of Haleh Esfandiari The Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association helped craft MESA’s letter protesting the detention by the Iranian government of prominent Iranian-American academic Haleh Esfandiari. [Help MESA defend Academic Freedom.] May 11, 2007 President Mahmoud AhmadinejadPasteur AveTehran 13168-43311Iran Your Excellency, I am writing on behalf of […]

Those who Live in Glass Houses Were Mitt Romney’s Remarks Anti-Muslim Bigotry? Mitt Romney has attacked Al Sharpton’s remark about his being defeated by those who ‘really do believe in God’ as a piece of religious bigotry. But first of all the remark came in the context of Sharpton’s debate with Christopher Hitchens concerning belief […]

Kurdish Offered at the University of Michigan Pardon the narrowcasting– this is a message primarily for University of Michigan students, who should please share it with potentially interested friends. We have just enough applications to offer Elementary Kurdish of Iraq this summer term but we would like to get the word out to University of […]

Can Sarkozy Uphold the Values of 1789? Rightwing nationalist Nicolas Sarkozy, is the next president of France. He campaigned on an anti-immigrant platform that veered uncomfortably close to that of Jean-Marie LePen, though he did make a provision for affirmative action. Sarkozy will try to break the unions, and his view of the immigrants who […]

Hillary and the End of Occupation and of the New Imperialism Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a surprise move, will introduce legislation with Sen. Robert Byrd to revoke the war powers granted to Bush in October of 2002. She says she had originally supported a Byrd amendment at that time to limit those powers to a […]