From today’s Jerusalem Post: “Don Quixote diplomacy“: Today the faces stare out at us from our front page and ask: What are you waiting for? How many more of us must die? How long will you postpone the inevitable? To Yossi Beilin, the Arab world, Europe, and the US State Department, the inevitable is the hurried formation of a Palestinian state more or less along the 1967 boundaries, a notion

From today’s Jerusalem Post: “Don Quixote diplomacy“: Today the faces stare out at us from our front page and ask: What are you waiting for? How many more of us must die? How long will you postpone the inevitable? To Yossi Beilin, the Arab world, Europe, and the US State Department, the inevitable is the hurried formation of a Palestinian state more or less along the 1967 boundaries, a notion

“The nation’s immigrant population grew by more than 11 million people in the 1990s, the highest increase in history, according to Census 2000 data released Tuesday,” the Houston Chronicle reports. […]Some economists say a growing immigrant population provides a growing labor market to offset the aging native-born population. But a number of political groups have formed in recent years under the belief that a growing immigrant population will lead to

15 Hurt in Cheese Roll. Somewhere in Europe. Nuff said.

“NATO officials on both sides of the Atlantic are concerned about the growing gap between U.S. military might and outdated, underfunded European forces, saying it could undermine future alliance missions,” the Waco Tribune reports. The aim is to break away from NATO’s role of defending Europe against a now nonexistent Soviet threat and to give the alliance the means to project power to far-flung regions harboring terrorists that threaten allied

“NATO officials on both sides of the Atlantic are concerned about the growing gap between U.S. military might and outdated, underfunded European forces, saying it could undermine future alliance missions,” the Waco Tribune reports. The aim is to break away from NATO’s role of defending Europe against a now nonexistent Soviet threat and to give the alliance the means to project power to far-flung regions harboring terrorists that threaten allied

They’re latex-skinned, they vibrate, they’re pressure sensitive… And you put ’em in up against your ear. My kinda party.

Yippee! Divestiture idiocy moves to the west coast! The Mercury News is reporting that “More than 140 University of California professors have signed a petition urging the university to divest in American companies that sell arms to Israel, and similar faculty petitions are circulating at Harvard, MIT, Princeton and Tufts. “The divestment drive borrows a page from the popular anti-apartheid campaigns of the 1980s, when students and professors persuaded universities

From FOXNews: “Bush to Announce Anti-Terror Agency“: President Bush will address the nation Thursday night to unveil a major homeland security program, including the creation of a new anti-terrorism intelligence agency. Bush will propose creation of a Cabinet homeland security office that will draw from eight current agencies in what spokesman Ari Fleischer said is the biggest government restructuring since the Truman administration. […] Fleischer said the new agency will

Amen to this: “For the first time, federal prosecutors explicitly accused John Walker Lindh on Tuesday of being partly responsible for the slaying of CIA agent Johnny ‘Mike’ Spann during an Afghan prison uprising in November. “In a bluntly worded 32-page motion, the prosecutors said the Marin County man accused of participating in a conspiracy to kill Americans overseas and of providing material support for terrorists can be blamed directly