WASHINGTON: What if Pakistan breaks up? It’s a question a friend asked recently. He is a former diplomat, a man of wide international experience who holds reasoned opinions. “Why should we Indians be worked up? If it breaks up, let it go,” he said.
We had a cracking debate about it that evening. I wondered whether [...]
Americans feel increasingly disheartened, and our leaders don’t even notice.
Peggy Noonan
The new economic statistics put growth at a healthy 3.5% for the third quarter. We should be dancing in the streets. No one is, because no one has any faith in these numbers. Waves of money are sloshing through the system, creating a false [...]
New legislation may make it easier for the Obama administration to keep its word and close the infamous detention center. Whether the detainees are to be tried in federal courts or military commissions would remain unresolved.
Virtually the first order of business for Barack Obama after his inauguration was a series of executive orders aimed at [...]
Medical Care: Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s cry in unveiling the House’s massive reform bill might as well have been “Viva la health care revolution!” America never voted for change like this.
Just as most congressional Democrats refused to listen to the angry public at town halls in the summer, Speaker Pelosi was not interested in ordinary Americans [...]
In tabloid cartoons and dinner conversations, Israelis brace themselves for war with Iran.
By YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI
Jerusalem
The postcard from the Home Front Command that recently arrived in my mailbox looks like an ad from the Ministry of Tourism. A map of Israel is divided by color into six regions, each symbolized by an upbeat drawing: a [...]
The jury in the Lemaricus Davidson double murder trial has recommended the death penalty for the murders of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom.
That same jury found him guilty on each count against him, in each count choosing the most serious offense, with the exception of the direct rape of Chris Newsom.
The imposition of the death [...]
Senator Tim Burchett confirms that convicted killer Letalvis Cobbins will be moved from a medium security prison to maximum security prison by Monday.
Burchett saw the families of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom on 10 News talking about all the calls they have made since they found out Cobbins was sent to the Hardeman Correctional Complex [...]
Convicted killer Lemaricus Davidson will be back in court on Thursday morning to put his life in the hands of a Knox County jury.
On Wednesday, 12 jurors found Davidson guilty of first degree premeditated murder of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom.
The jury found Davidson guilty of 38 different charges. However on the 2 counts [...]
By Christopher Orlet
Americans are used to the state forcing us to buy things. More than likely your state government forces you to purchase automobile insurance in order to operate your motorcar, just as you must buy a helmet to peddle your bicycle, mud flaps if you drive a tractor-trailer, and trigger locks for your blunderbuss. [...]
by Paul Begala
The ex-Democrat now says he’ll join the GOP in a health-care filibuster. Paul Begala on Lieberman’s latest and most shameless betrayal.
It’s journalistic shorthand to note a politician’s party identification and state after his or her name. For example: Jane Doe (D-NY). And so Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman is identified as (I-CT). But the [...]
