What Will a Free Libya Look Like?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 23rd, 2011 4:31 am by HL
What Will a Free Libya Look Like?
Shashank Joshi, The Telegraph
In January 1991, Saddam Hussein started to set fire to the oil wells of Kuwait – 700 in total, ablaze for ten months. There were fears that Colonel Gaddafi’s scorched earth policy would be no less dramatic. His congealing chemical weapons stocks were mostly unusable, and his soldiers out of reach of major refineries. But would he hurl Scuds towards rebel territory and NATO warships, or sabotage oil and transport infrastructure?Zero hour – as the rebels have called it – dispelled all this. The much vaunted Khamis Brigade was nowhere to be found, and its…
Partners: Clarence & Ginni Thomas
Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker
It has been, in certain respects, a difficult year for Clarence Thomas. In January, he was compelled to amend several years of the financial-disclosure forms that Supreme Court Justices must file each year. The document requires the Justices to disclose the source of all income earned by their spouses, and Thomas had failed to note that his wife, Virginia, who is known as Ginni, worked as a representative for a Michigan college and at the Heritage Foundation. The following month, seventy-four members of Congress called on Thomas to recuse himself from any legal challenges to President…
Here Comes More Failed Stimulus Spending
Texas’ Model Works, California’s Doesn’t
David Warren, Ottawa Citizen
Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, made waves this week, upon entering the Republican presidential fray, by suggesting that Ben Bernanke, of the Federal Reserve, would be treacherous if he continued to “print money” to grease the government's way out of the solvency crisis. Perry's colourfully frank Texas language got him into big trouble with all the smooth people who routinely refer to politicians like him as “terrorists.”That language may have been rather cleverly chosen, for the splash it created had two immediate political consequences, beyond persuading…
Al Gore Goes on a Tirade
Jack Kelly, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
