As much as I like the Governator, I'm beginning to think his pragmatic nature has gotten him swallowed by the Legislatural Pod People. California has a "structural" budget problem of at least a decade.  Our budgets have been based on wishful thinking and the provably false assumption that it will get better.  Now they're looking to 'enhance' the ( Read more... )

I can only wonder where Ms. Livni happened to be on the days of her history classes. After six decades of declarations that Israel has no place on the face of the earth, she still persists in saying that Israel must give up land for peace. Perhaps she thinks that ALL of it will bring some peace? 

Joe is a master of understatement. "If none of the winners really won, the loser - the Israeli left - clearly lost. " He's pretty good at ignoring reality, too.  When he says, "It will be much harder now for the U.S. to continue its unambiguous support if Israel's government prominently features a blatantly anti-Arab party," he ignores the causes ( Read more... )

The modern West is wallowing in a delusion. We clamor for words of peace from alleged spokesmen of Islam and ignore the background and historical facts which make lies of those soothing words. If an Islamic person speaks of peace, it is to be the peace of submission to his God. If you are not of his faith, you are - at best - an inferior or slave, ( Read more... )