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Huskies Athletics cuts the Huskies Cheerleaders :: Cheerleaders pulled a bush league stunt and got what they deserved.  I can’t say I will miss them. How much did it cost to distribute all of those Aol. disks in the 1990s?  Corruption is worth than imagined in Quebec.  The head of Quebec’s anti-collusion unit says he’s [...]

Where did Michael Ignatieff go wrong?

Licia Corbella of the Calgary Herald looks at why Michael Ignatieff failed to connect with Canadian voters. To his baffled Harvard colleagues who can’t understand how a Harvard man can’t beat a University of Calgary man, ask yourselves this: Would any of Ignatieff’s books have won awards if the positions he took waffled as much [...]

A review of Obama’s Foreign Policy

Washington Post columnist David Ignatius speaks with former national security advisors Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft, about the greatest success and shortcomings of the Obama administration’s foreign policy. The two men cited the Israel-Palestinian peace process as Obama’s most important unfinished business. Both have argued often that the president should have started by outlining the [...]

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

I was chatting about this recently with a friend of mine who was hoping President Obama would repeal the

Gaza

During the Israeli attack on Hamas, I was sent a variety of links, Facebook groups, e-mails, and people to write so I could show my solidarity with the people of Gaza.  For some very complicated reasons, I decided to ignore all of them, even though they came from close friends.  The main reason is that [...]

Gaza

Warren Kinsella has a good post about the spin that is coming out of Gaza.  I agree with what he is saying but I struggle with the strategy of what Israel is doing and if it is going to work. First of all, I can’t imagine how difficult it is to live right beside a [...]