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Sound and Fury: Americans Actually Lightly Taxed
The following chart is a slightly shortened version of the one at The Globe and Mail, which demonstrates that US tax rates are among the […]
Cheek: We have no Liberty without Energy Freedom
Martin Cheek, co-author of Clean Energy Nation: Freeing America from the Tyranny of Fossil Fuels, writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: Americans Must […]
Al-Tamimi: The Norway Attacks and the Paranoid Mindset
Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi writes in a guest column for Informed Comment The Norway Attacks and the Paranoid Mindset It has emerged that Anders Breivik- who […]
Top Developments in the Arab Spring this Weekend
As usual, Friday was a big day for the popular Arab reform movements that are challenging dictatorial governments. 1. Syrian security forces are alleged to […]
European Extremism Scares Arabs
Egyptian newspaper Al-Shuruq in Arabic for July 29, 2011: Article on Anders Breivik with the title, “Europe’s Extreme Right: A Hatred Factory”
A Story More Important than Debt Limit Kabuki
I take it the American news cycle is dominated by the artificial debate over raising the debt limit. It is a silly season story. The […]
Controversies over Younis assassination in Libya
Abdel Fattah Younis, military leader of the Free Libya Forces, was assassinated Thursday. Younis was too close to Qaddafi, despite his defection, to remain truly […]
Dear Foreigner-Haters: Immigration is Good for You
Why is there such strong anti-immigrant sentiment in the industrialized democracies, and why does it get focused on Muslims? The shooting rampage and bombing by […]
O’Reilly’s Muslim-Hatred and Christian Terrorists
Television commentator Bill O’Reilly lambasted the press for referring to Anders Breivik as a Christian terrorist, on the grounds that he is not a practicing […]
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