I wasn’t going to comment on the issue, but apparently it’s not going away. Today’s New York Times ran a story on the continuing saga of Córdoba House, known to most of us as the “Ground Zero Mosque.” A new player has entered the debate – the Anti-Defamation League: The controversy which has emerged regarding the building of an Islamic [...]
Yuli Edelstein is Israel’s Minister of Information & Diaspora, member of the Knesset, and former Minister of Immigrant Absorption. Minister Edel- stein is a leading member of the Likud Party, and has served in the Knesset since 1996. The Penn Political Review had the opportunity to sit down with Minister Edelstein at the Lubavitch House at Penn.
The Chief Executive of Freddie Mac, Charles E. Haldeman, Jr. oversees the second largest source of mortgage financing in the United States. Freddie Mac has been the leader in the nation’s efforts to ease the current housing crisis.
A Non-Sarcastically-Titled Argument for Legalization: New Jersey recently legalized the medical use of marijuana. A chief feature of the law is its strictness; politicians maintained that marijuana would not be made available to every college student claiming depression or anxiety. But why not?
It has long been fashionable in the U.S. to critique Europe as a socialist continent, where the state is overgrown and the left predominant. It is certainly true that European nations typically have highly developed welfare states and stiff governmental controls on the economy. But to indulge in this cliché is to miss a crucial development in recent European electoral politics.
Obama entered office emphasizing the “mutual interests” that the U.S. shares with China and the “mutual respect” that they have. He hoped that he could get China to cooperate with the rest of the world on important global issues — on Iran, climate change, and China’s currency manipulation. Instead, Obama has been ignored, rebuffed, and even humiliated.
How increased immigration is good for everyone: “In 25.3% of the technology and engineering companeis started in the U.S. from 1995 to 2005, at least one key founder was foreign-born.”
[Update: Andrew Sullivan has walked back some of the things I'm responding to below. I don't think that alters my point of view on the matter terribly, but it does remind me that Sullivan is willing to change strongly-held opinions - an admirable quality that he acquired at some cost.] Like most people who read blogs regularly, I read new [...]
By Ned Shell Argentina, a country that is 92% Catholic and, at least outside of cosmopolitan Buenos Aires and Córdoba, quite conservative (by American standards), has done something only 5 of 50 American states have managed to do after years of lobbying and protesting: legalize gay marriage and child adoption. I’ve spent most of this summer working with the Ministry [...]
Are you following the Supreme Court cases on same-sex marriage?
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