The Israeli media reported Sunday that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will be pried free from his yacht to return to the Middle East this week to try, yet again, to convince Israel and the Palestinians to negotiate. In
Much debate surrounds President Barack Obama’s refusal to label the Egyptian coup a “coup.” Doing so would have legal implications for U.S. aid to Egypt, which is one of the administration’s few remaining points of leverage. The Egypt case contrasts
NPR’s Nina Totenberg filed a story summing up the Supreme Court’s contentious recent term. In covering Shelby County v. Holder, the decision to strike down part of the Voting Rights Act, Totenberg managed to find some conservatives who disagreed with the
The government of Turkey has rejected the recent coup in Egypt, describing the ouster of the democratically-elected Muslim Brotherhood regime of Mohamed Morsi as “unacceptable, no matter what the reasons,” the Associate Press reports. Turkey, which is governed by an
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, which governed the country through the Freedom and Justice Party until a coup July 3, called for nationwide protests and a “Friday of Resistance” following weekly prayers at the country’s mosques. In 2011, similar protests, then called
Earlier this week, Breitbart News reported that a hepatitis outbreak, traced to Turkish pomegranate seeds, had taken place partly because the White House has delayed food safety rules that would allow the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to monitor imported foods.
Residents of Santa Monica, CA were treated to a large contingent of Occupy Wall Street activists and Edward Snowden supporters in Thursday’s annual Fourth of July parade down Main Street. Carrying “Free Bradley Manning” signs and protest banners, and pretending
As Americans gather to celebrate the anniversary of our nation’s freedom, we contemplate, on the one hand, the revolution in Egypt, where people crying out for freedom could only appeal to the military, having lost any power of self-government; and,
Iran–the major geopolitical challenge in the Middle East–will view the military coup in Egypt as a net positive, on balance–though not without some downside. On the one hand, the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood and Mohamed Morsi represents a victory
The mainstream media are celebrating the coup d’état in Egypt, reporting breathlessly from the wild celebrations in Cairo as the military announces that the Muslim Brotherhood government of Mohamed Morsi is no longer in power. The sudden enthusiasm, however, is
The coup in Egypt leaves President Barack Obama’s foreign policy in tatters, and brings to mind–without comparing Obama to Stalin–what George Orwell once observed, in “Looking Back on the Spanish War“: I believe that in the future we shall come
On one side, a democratically-elected despot and religious fanatic who wishes to impose his rule on the entire nation, citing his “legitimate” election as authority to do whatever he and his party wish. On the other, a desperate populace so
Update: The ultimatum has passed, amidst reports that the Egyptian military has moved into state television stations and continues to meet with political and religious leaders to lay out its next steps in the crisis. *** With mere hours left
5. The White House is like a “really nice prison.” That would mean that the First Lady failed to make parole in November 2012. Ms. Obama made that complaint at the African First Ladies Summit in Tanzania, among fellow inmates, some from
A new study by the Frontier Lab, a conservative market research group, found that Republican voters who leave the party do so because they are are tired of being told to vote Republican as the “lesser of two evils.” The
During the debate over the budget sequester earlier this year, the Obama administration warned that cuts to discretionary spending growth might cause the federal government to furlough meat inspectors. Yet the latest food contamination outbreak is partly the result of
At a joint press conference with Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete on Monday, President Barack Obama neglected to mention the nineteen firefighters who lost their lives fighting wildfires in Arizona until prompted by a journalist’s question–and then blamed the journalist when
First Lady Michelle Obama has raised eyebrows by likening life in the White House to life in a “really nice prison.” Ms. Obama was speaking at the African First Ladies Summit in Tanzania, where she is traveling with President Barack Obama
Before lionizing the anti-Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators who are now filling Cairo’s Tahrir Square and (justly) demanding the resignation of President Mohamed Morsi, perhaps we should consider who they are. A foreign reporter reportedly has again been raped in the crowd, just
As one Egyptian government minister after another resigned on Monday and Tuesday, President Barack Obama refused to withdraw his support for President Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood government, noting that they came to power in a “legitimate” election. Meanwhile,
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who compares illegal immigration to civil rights, has, surprisingly, come out strongly against amnesty for a certain illegal immigrant– a “hero,” no less, whose life and freedom are at stake (via CBS): U.S. officials including Sen.
Reuters reports that the Egyptian military has given the country’s politicians 48 hours to find a political solution to the ongoing crisis in that country. The implication is that the military will then intervene to impose stability and its own
