From the monthly archives:

December 2008

Gilad Shalit: 900 days in a Gaza Prison

December 30, 2008

A series of boats, stocked with reporters and (on second thought) presumed medical and food supplies have plied the waters of the Gaza coast, hoping to provoke a strong Israeli reaction. The ongoing blockade by Israel’s small but efficient navy prevents shipments of TNT, rockets, bombs, guns, ammunition and assorted other war/terrorism materials from reaching [...]

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Green Christmas Gifts

December 24, 2008

What if President Bush had the opportunity to grant the free world a final Christmas gift: 10 cruise missiles for the world’s 10 worst dictators, terrorists and/or murderers? I would imagine Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, North Korea’s maniacal Kim Jong-il, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal (currently ensconced in Damascus), Sudan’s Omar Hasan al-Bashir, Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah [...]

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10 Rules for the Future: An Obama Suggestive

December 17, 2008

Cap tax-deductible CEO remuneration at a maximum of 30 times the salary of that public company’s lowest paid worker. Thereabove, salaries will not be tax deductible as an operating expense for an employer. In addition, no bonuses (in cash or shares) for top management of a public company will be tax deductible if the company [...]

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Mumbai Media Machinations

December 1, 2008

Hypocrisy drips heavy from the broadcast towers of the Western media. The tragedies in Mumbai set in stark relief the variation in media labels for those that kill Jews in Israel and those that kill innocents of other creeds in other places. You will note that “militants” hardly exist in this horror, but “terrorists” abound. [...]

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