Clarification/Correction Regarding Audio Transmission Between Israeli Navy and Flotilla on 31 May 2010, Posted on 5 June 2010  —  Clarification/Correction Regarding Audio Transmission Between Flotilla and Israeli Navy  —  5 June 2010  —  Yesterday evening on 4 June 2010 …

Washington Asks What to Do About Israel  —  WASHINGTON — Some topics are so inflammatory that they are never discussed without first inserting a number of caveats.  And so, when Anthony Cordesman, a foreign policy dignitary in this town's think tank circuit, dropped an article on Wednesday headlined …

Ostracizing The Losers —  Unemployed need not apply  —  Ostracizing The Losers  —  The other day Brad Delong asked if we are seeing the creation of an underclass of long term unemployed.  Here is some more evidence that we are: … There's more evidence that this is fairly widespread at the link.

Jim Greer's lawyer says Gov. Crist okayed diversion of GOP funds  —  Gov. Charlie Crist personally signed off on his former Republican party chairman's confidential fundraising role with the state party - according to Jim Greer's attorney, whose allegation contradicts the governor's statement that he …

Israel's commando complex  —  Recently an intelligence official actually called the absence of Palestinian terror a ‘propaganda problem.’  —  It's impossible to understand or explain Israel's passive-aggressive responses to the “flotilla crisis” without reference to the ground from which its current leaders emerged.

Queen's birthday gaffe leaves Hillary Clinton red faced  —  Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, has been left red faced after mistakenly sending a birthday message to the Queen a week early.  —  An official statement from the US foreign policy chief paid tribute to the …

Conservative class on Founding Fathers' answers to current woes gains popularity  —  SPRINGFIELD, MO. — Earl Taylor has spent 31 years teaching that “the Founding Fathers have answers to nearly every problem we have in America today.”  Only in recent months has he found so many eager students.

AN IMPOSSIBLE STANDARD TO MEET.... When it comes to the Sestak and Romanoff “stories,” some on the right and in the media have shifted gears a bit.  Instead of arguing that intervention in primaries is illegal and/or unethical — it's obviously neither — they're left to argue that it's “politics as usual.”

Employers on Strike  —  Congress keeps giving business reasons not to hire.  —  It's too bad we can't do the Census every year, because maybe the U.S. economy would then show some jobs growth.  That quip was one of the rueful asides we heard yesterday as Americans learned that the economy created …

More mistakes in Kirk remarks  —  Rep. Mark Kirk's problems with exaggeration or “casualness . . . with details,” as he described it last week, go beyond his military record to his comments about foreign policy issues that are supposed to be his strong suit, a Sun-Times look at the record has found.