Considering the union busting measures that have passed in Ohio and Wisconsin, along with the reconvening of the Committee on Un-American Activities, I'm feeling rather disgusted and at a last for words this evening. As if all of that wasn't bad enough, the U.S. intelligence director publicly predicted a win for Qaddafi in Libya. It seems ironic ( Read more... )

1. I'm sure everyone will have a lot of sympathy for the agonizing ordeal that Bernie Madoff has had to go through. Right? Um, right? Tap, tap. Is this thing on ( Read more... )

Apparently, the Libyan uprising was caused by Osama bin Laden giving drugs to Libyan students.

This theory makes it official: Colonel Gadhafi is now crazy enough to qualify for his own talk show on Fox News.

Judging by the brutal repression in Libya and severe crackdowns in Bahrain, Algeria, and elsewhere, Arab tyrants must know that their days are numbered. But somehow the euphoria of what happened in Egypt has worn off, to be replaced by a sickening horror at witnessing just how far these desperate power-hungry tyrants will go to keep their little ( Read more... )

1. Egypt's state-run media switches sides

A telling paragraph from that article:

Some of the largest and most violent protests took place in front of the Ministry of Information, from which state TV broadcasts. At some point, riot police clashed with protesters trying to take over the building. Many accused Information Minister Anas al-Fiqqi of ( Read more... )

Algeria moves to block Egypt-inspired protestsCHICAGO (MarketWatch) - Algerian riot police Saturday clashed with pro-democracy demonstrators inspired by the popular uprising in Egypt, according to published reports. Palestinians, Israelis react to Egypt ( Read more... )

An intriguing question: Where might Hosni Mubarak end up now?

One of those "Did he really just say that?" moments: Vice President Biden giving a blatant suggestion that the people of Iran follow the example of Egypt. It took me a moment to realize he had actually said such a thing. It's particularly surprising in light of the diplomatic tip toeing that the Obama Administration has been doing during the ( Read more... )

NPR interviewed Associate Editor Joshua Keating of Foreign Policy magazine about American reliance on what he termed the "useful autocrat". Examples run the gamut from Marcos in the Phillippines to the Shah of Iran and, naturally, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak. Two major points particularly jumped out at me ( Read more... )

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