Kerry Supports Libyan No-Fly Zone
John Kerry’s Washington Post op-ed supports U. S. leadership in establishing a no-fly zone in Libya.
Time in German
Frank Jacobs explains how “in German, you can tell with some degree of certainty which general area someone hails from by the way they tell the time at quarter past ten.”
OTB Foreign Desk
Today’s Foreign Desk includes comments on Brazil’s floods, developments in Ivory Coast, and Silvio Berlusconi’s sex scandal.
Wikileaks, The Pentagon Papers, And The First Amendment
The lawyer who argued The Pentagon Papers case points out how Julian Assange is not Daniel Ellsberg, and how prosecuting him could have disastrous results for press freedom in the United States.
Medal Of Honor Awarded To First Living Recipient Since Vietnam War
Sergeant Salvatore A. Giunta is the first living recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War.
“Swift Assimilation” and History
Ross Douthat’s latest New York Times column demonstrates an appalling misunderstanding of history in the context of immigration.
