By • Dec 30,2008

What doesn’t kill Hamas makes it stronger

Benny Morris writes as follows on Israel’s predicament: To the north, the Lebanese fundamentalist organization Hezbollah, which also vows to destroy Israel and functions as an Iranian proxy, has thoroughly...

By • Dec 30,2008

Department of humorous [sic]s

I’ve warned in the past about making fun of another blogger’s misadventures with grammar/spelling, since we all blog quickly and we all make our own mistakes. But one of the...

By • Dec 30,2008

Most Ambitious Subhed Ever

From Charles Krauthammer’s longish piece in The Weekly Standard, “The Net-Zero Gas Tax”: A once-in-a-generation way to weaken OPEC, abolish absurd regulations, reduce greenhouse gases, improve our trade balance, gain...

By • Dec 30,2008

Iceburn!

The question of how the Camp David Accords played out and whose “fault” it was that they broke down is a vexed one, vexed enough that I know not to...