The Syrian uprising began one year ago. The Assad regime marked it in two ways. First, with a Potemkin rally in Damascus, with tens of thousands of pro-regime demonstrators coming out (read: forced to come out) in support. They called it the “Global March for Syria.” The second marking of the uprising was by armies [...]

Mitt Romney’s CNBC interview revealed truths on more than just the Presidential role in gas prices. He also managed to make his entire economic plan completely irrelevant. Responding to analysis from the Tax Policy Center that his plans would add $3 trillion to the deficit over a decade, Romney casually mentioned that his plan isn’t [...]

I’ll get to the President’s press conference (still ongoing) in a moment, but at the top of it, he announced a series of “new” measures on housing. I put “new” in quotes because I don’t see how these are particularly new measures. Today, the President is announcing two steps the Administration is taking to support [...]

A day after speaking at the AIPAC conference, President Obama met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today. The telegraphed message from the President for this meeting was to tell Netanyahu that he has a friend in the United States, that sanctions should be given time to work, and that Israel should not seek a [...]

The prospect of an Israeli attack on Iran has become more realistic in recent weeks. Israeli officials told the AP that they would not even inform the United States in the event of a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. And there’s a sense that the window for an attack that would actually damage the nuclear [...]

The President signed the National Defense Authorization Act on the last day of 2011. Two months later, his White House announced an implementation strategy in a statement from Tommy Vietor. In essence, the President will ignore a few of the provisions in the NDAA, using the escape hatches written into the bill to evade the [...]

I’m sure this will be given as evidence that Obama “lost” Iran: International nuclear inspectors reported on Friday that Iran is moving rapidly to produce nuclear fuel at a deep underground site that Israel and the United States have said is virtually invulnerable to attack. The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency indicated that [...]

I want to direct you to an article at the normally staid Foreign Affairs magazine by Michael Cohen and Micah Zenko, which they’ve made available without a subscription for the next several weeks. The article provides a nice counterpoint to the normal practice in American politics of screeching about imminent threats to our way of [...]

The protests over the desecration of Korans in Afghanistan spread like wildfire today, and the Guardian reports at least seven deaths: Seven people have been killed in Afghanistan as violence spread across the country in a second day of protests against the burning of copies of the Qur’an by foreign troops. In Kabul an enraged [...]

The one-candidate Presidential election in Yemen happened today. You’ll never guess who won! Yemenis voted Tuesday to instate their U.S.-backed vice president as the new head of state tasked with steering the country out of a crisis created by an anti-government uprising that has raged for a year. The vote can hardly be called an [...]

Housing Wire reports that we’re not going to see foreclosure fraud settlement terms until the end of the month, at best: The state attorneys general and federal prosecutors will likely file the actual $25 billion foreclosure settlement documents in court by the end of the month, according to a source familiar with the deal. The [...]