WASHINGTON (AP) — From an immediate, practical viewpoint, the ruling by a trademark board that the Washington Redskins have a “disparaging” nickname doesn’t mean much. The team doesn’t have to change a thing, and the matter will likely be tied up in courts for years. From an emotional, intangible standpoint, however, the decision issued Wednesday […]
An elevated network of hover cars is to be built in Tel Aviv, the BBC reports. A 500m loop will be built on the campus of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) followed by a commercial network, according to skyTran, the company that will build it. Two-person vehicles will be suspended from elevated magnetic tracks, as an […]
Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar on Tuesday issued a direct threat against Israel. Al-Zahar, who spoke at a memorial ceremony for terrorists who died in a “work accident”, declared that Hamas has rockets that can hit any city in Israel. He further said that during Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012, Hamas held a “dry […]
Hillary Clinton is not the only prominent, rich liberal who is having trouble articulating their vast concern for the poor and income inequality. Recently, there has been a rash of major liberal figures downplaying the fact that American capitalism has been quite good for them, while attempting to hamstring it for the rest of America. […]
The nearly 1.9 million member Presbyterian Church USA voted Friday after a contentious debate to divest from three companies that provide supplies to Israeli security forces and Jews living in Judea and Samaria.The 310 to 303 vote at the Protestant denomination’s meeting in Detroit, Michigan, means the group will pull financial investments out of Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard […]
The tax reform debate about the child tax credit (CTC) continues. Hopefully the discussion sheds light on whether the CTC expansion is the best policy. My purpose in writing has been 1) to point out that there is a trade-off: the bigger the CTC expansion, the less we can cut the more economically harmful taxes […]
The wave of anti-Semitic violence continues to rock French Jewry, as a gang of 20 attackers on Monday reportedly assaulted visibly Jewish students wearing kippot (yarmulkes) at a local library in the capital city of Paris.The assailants, described by reports as being of North African descent and therefore likely Muslim immigrants, approached the Jewish students […]
Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, the 27-year-old mother of two condemned to death for her Christian faith, has been freed after a court in Sudan ordered her release today. According to SUNA, Sudan’s official news agency, the Khartoum Court of Appeals canceled Ishag’s sentence and ordered all charges dropped. Ishag’s lawyer, Mohaned Mostafa, told Reuters she […]
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“What’s the point of having this superb military that you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?” —Madeline Albright, 1993, as she argued for sending U.S. troops to Bosnia There’s an undertone to Albright’s quip, one that suggests a sharp distinction between how progressives and realists view the purpose of the people in the […]
