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Where is the concept?

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Jul 21, 2009

What can one learn in Springfield?

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Jun 3, 2009

More brains, less Halliburton: why Dick Cheney is wrong

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Mar 20, 2009

Leave radical Islam alone

A few weeks ago, Fareed Zakaria questioned our mostly military response to radical Islam. Readers, both at the Huffington...

Mar 17, 2009

Journalism does not need to be saved, newspapers do

Time published Walter Isaacson’s story entitled “How to Save Your Newspaper“. The same text was posted on the Huffington...

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Mar 13, 2009

Stealing horses with Blago and telling

Under the title “This explains it”, the Sunday, February 15th Chicago Tribune reprinted from the Men’s Journal magazine a...

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Feb 16, 2009

The simplest plan for helping homeowners

Some banks gave mortgage loans to people who cannot keep a house under any conditions. These so-called toxic assets...

Feb 15, 2009

The Freedom of Migration Act challenge

The present recession overshadows our unresolved immigration mess. However, be it the stimulus package or the recently passed State...

Feb 8, 2009
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Peace with Iran

June 3, 2026
Life and politics, Ukraine

Americans request that Iranians give up their attempts to have nuclear weapons. Will they? It is not hard to guess what they think. Pakistan and China east of Iran, as well as Russia to the north, have atomic bombs. So does the hostile Israel. So in exchange for giving up nukes, Iran needs security guarantees. Americans are ready to promise that, but Iranians should answer: “Let us check with Zelenskyy how those guarantees worked out for Ukraine.” No peace is possible without Iranians getting their nukes. Not because Iranians are evil, but because Americans stupidly pretend that Israel has no nukes, then notoriously fail to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and betray Ukraine.

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