Ehud Olmert's Folly

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Tuesday January 06, 2009 · 12:22 AM PST

2009/01/06 · 00:22

Ehud Olmert has done it again. Two years after the fiasco in Lebanon, he has once again committed Israeli forces on a fool's errand. The target is different this time, but the one constant is the body count.

Mash

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Wednesday December 31, 2008 · 11:24 AM PST

2008/12/31 · 11:24

A Muslim majority country of over 150 million people just held a high-turnout peaceful democratic election. The secular Awami League won a landslide victory in Bangladesh's parliamentary elections and is poised to send back to power Sheikh Hasina - one of two women who have led Bangladesh in the past - as the country's Prime Minister. In the process, the Bangladeshi voters sent the Islamist political party, Jamaat-e-Islami, into political oblivion. The Jamaat secured 2 seats in the 300 seat parliament while the Awami League secured 230 seats. This election was a stunning repudiation of military rule and of the Islamists in a country that has suffered from both. However, as democracy triumphed in Bangladesh, the world barely took notice.

Mash

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Thursday December 18, 2008 · 8:29 PM PST

2008/12/18 · 20:29

The most anonymous victims of murder are the victims of genocide. We count the victims in numbers - one in a hundred thousand, one in eight hundred thousand, one in three million, or one in six million. The scale of the crime is so vast that it dehumanizes those of us who live to bear witness to its aftermath. In this world it is easier and much more commonplace to hold accountable a murderer of one than a murderer of thousands. That is our reality in the age of genocide.

Mash

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Monday December 15, 2008 · 6:00 PM PST

2008/12/15 · 18:00

Caroline Kennedy, daughter of John F. Kennedy, is apparently interested in the New York Senate seat that will be vacated by Hillary Clinton. Good for her. I hope New Yorkers think it is good for them as well.

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Sunday December 14, 2008 · 4:48 PM PST

2008/12/14 · 16:48

In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, earlier this week, the president of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari wrote an op-ed in The New York Times urging India and Pakistan to work together to battle terrorism. He argued that terrorists are out to destroy Pakistan and that India and Pakistan have a shared interest in combating terrorism. That is an argument hard to argue with.

Mash

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Sunday December 07, 2008 · 7:55 PM PST

2008/12/07 · 19:55

Steve Hildebrand, the Obama campaign's steller field general, has a message for me and other like-minded progressives. The message is: "Hush".

Mash

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Tuesday December 02, 2008 · 7:08 PM PST

2008/12/02 · 19:08

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Saturday November 29, 2008 · 8:37 PM PST

2008/11/29 · 20:37

The Associated Press is reporting that Barack Obama will announce Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State this Monday. ABC News reports that the entire national security team will be announced Monday. ABC News reports on the makeup of the team:

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Friday November 28, 2008 · 5:37 PM PST

2008/11/28 · 17:37

Indian news outlets have reported that one of the terrorists from Oberoi Hotel called into the India TV television station. He claimed to be from the Deccan Mujahideen and recited his demands. Earlier, an email from a group calling itself the "Mujahideen Hyderabad Deccan" emailed a message to Indian media outlets. "Deccan", by the way, means "Southern". Hyderabad is in the south of India.

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Monday November 24, 2008 · 8:04 PM PST

2008/11/24 · 20:04

It is now reported in the media as universal truth that Hillary Clinton is "on track" to be Barack Obama's Secretary of State. Apparently Clinton has made her anti-Shermanesque statement on the issue: something to the effect, according to "Clinton insiders", that if offered she will accept, if confirmed she will serve. It is not clear whether the job has been offered, but it has publicly been asserted that she is ready to accept.

I think Hillary Clinton as our next Secretary of State is an exceedingly bad idea.

Mash

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Tuesday November 18, 2008 · 10:00 PM PST

2008/11/18 · 22:00

Eric Holder, tapped to be the next Attorney General, spoke earlier this year at the American Constitution Society. The topic was the rule of law [click for video]. Holder spoke about reclaiming the rule of law from the depths it has fallen under the Bush administration.

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Friday November 07, 2008 · 8:00 PM PST

2008/11/07 · 20:00

I just watched a hit job on Barack Obama on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360. In their "Keeping Them Honest" segment Tom Foreman looked at Obama's press conference and said that Obama was pulling back on his campaign promises. This was news to me since I had listened to the entire press conference and did not notice this at all. So, I went to the transcript to make sure.

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