Andrew Sullivan: He’s despatching Lindsey and Joe as emissaries to the country immediately. He’s on the phone with Sakashvilli daily. He’s giving press conferences. He’s warning of a new Tsarist empire. You can tell what sends him into high-energy zones: a clear enemy abroad. He knows black and white; and he knows war. It gives […]
The people in Georgia wonder why the U.S. and NATO isn’t there helping them fight Russia: As a Russian jet bombed fields around his village, Djimali Avago, a Georgian farmer, asked me: “Why won’t America and Nato help us? If they won’t help us now, why did we help them in Iraq?” A similar sense […]
Sam Brownback is furious over China eavesdropping on internet communications. Here he is expressing his outrage to Wolf Blitzer: Yes – how dare they eavesdrop on people! That should only be allowed here in the U.S., where Brownback supports it. This is another shining example of Republican hypocrisy, and another reason why America is frowned […]
The U.S. decides not to join in the international ban of cluster bombs: More than 100 countries reached agreement Wednesday to ban cluster bombs, controversial weapons that human rights groups deplore but that the United States, which did not join the ban, calls an integral, legitimate part of its arsenal. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, […]
An earthquake leaves thousands dead in China. With all the tornadoes, cyclones and all this other weather news happening right now it makes you wonder if the planet isn’t trying to send us a message.
I posted about a judge ordering Wikileaks offline a couple weeks ago. It was certainly a move that seemed to align us with China, Iran and numerous other nations we claim to dislike. Now news has emerged that the same judge may be planning to reopen the case and re-examine his decision.
It’s funny that we seem to only have Nader popping up every 4 years now. In the past year we have seen enormous consumer problems. Food recalls are becoming a daily occurrence. Countless items from China have been recalled and Americans are paying record amounts for oil, while the oil companies are enjoying record profits. […]
That is an interesting argument raised by Michael Froomkin about the Wikileaks case: This isn’t a classic prior restraint on speech since it reaches the registrar not the speaker — but it’s close enough to stopping the delivery trucks on a newspaper that I think this aspect of the decision is a cause for some […]
We have the military getting ready to fire 5 missiles at the dead spy satellite in hopes to destroy it, before it falls to earth. So what happens if they shoot these five missiles and miss it? It would be an embarrassing blow to the missile defense system, which has already been met with a […]
China is banning plastic shopping bags effective June 1. Does that mean the U.S. will soon follow suit? I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one.