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That’s what some Israeli women think. But the State of Israel seems to think otherwise.
Archive for November, 2009
November 29th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
The current Russian regime uses political murder as a means of rule.
November 27th, 2009
Category: Wretched excess
Dubai, one of the seven United Arab Emirates on the south coast of the Persian Gulf, is a small tribe (now numbering about 300,000) of pearl fishers and date-palm cultivators who found themselves, in 1966, living on top of a small-to-medium-sized lake of oil. They arranged to have this oil pumped out and sold as [...]
November 26th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Is there any other way to prevent the coming Supreme Court decision from allowing corporate America to buy the government?
November 25th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
26% of American adults believe that global warming isn’t happening: not that it might not be anthropogenic, not that it isn’t important, not that we shouldn’t try to prevent it, but simply that the globe hasn’t gotten warmer over the past century.
November 25th, 2009
Category: California Politics, Education policy, Policy Analysis, Policy briefs, Political Science, Politics and Leadership
Debate in California about the funding cuts for higher education has become quite perplexing, partly because some of the parties are not thinking very clearly about it, partly because the question is fairly complicated, partly because the politics of California budgeting have become so pathological. In response to relentless nagging from David Schutz (well, he [...]
November 24th, 2009
Obama’s climate diplomacy with India is constructive, modest — and realistic.
November 24th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
I’m for it. Let the Republicans in Congress either vote to shut down the Afghan mission or vote to pay for it. I look forward to the debate.
November 24th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
It turns out that the death of a census worker in Kentucky was a suicide, not an act of domestic terrorism. Thus, contrary to my earlier speculation, the people who have been trying to whip up panic fear of the federal government in general and the Census in particular aren’t in fact responsible for the [...]