Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

In Israel geopolitics keeps redefining morality every few decades, argues George Friedman.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) proposed that U.S. leaders not attend the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing over China’s alleged human rights violations, saying taking part in the Games would make the U.S. “complicit.” Forbes

Moral hazard. Generally speaking war, pestilence and famine favor the rich. This has been true through history.

The face mask, beyond its purpose as a sanitary appliance, has become a political symbol, a banner, a sign of whose side you’re on. Still another made an ominous, baffling prediction: “We will know who the real vaccinated people are – they will be wearing their masks. The unmasked will be the unvaccinated.”

According to Caniglia v Strom, a lower court had previously determined that police confiscating the guns without a warrant fell under the Fourth Amendment’s “community caretaking” exception, but a 9-0 vote from the nation’s top court struck down that ruling.

CNN has fired Adeel Raja, a freelance contributor, after he tweeted Sunday: ‘The world today needs a Hitler’ Daily Mail

This includes avoiding incitement, violent attacks, and terrorist acts, as well as evictions – including in East Jerusalem – demolitions, and settlement construction east of the 1967 lines. 

If identity politics is so good then why are its effects so destructive in the Middle East, among other places?

From the Atlantic in 2014

By its fruits shall you know the screwup.

The Israelis are using ultra-precision warheads that can approximate the effect of controlled demolitions. What additional options does it give them?

Why would it be OK to demand proof of your health record on entering a store but not of identity when voting? What’s the governing principle?

A group of 18 scientists stated Thursday in a letter published in the journal Science that there is not enough evidence to decide whether a natural origin or an accidental laboratory leak caused the Covid-19 pandemic. NYT

The real price of Biden’s policy in the Middle East, which has resulted in new war in an area recently gone quiet, is that it complicates a strategic withdrawal from the region in order to pivot towards China. Facing a near peer rival, as the British empire discovered, requires ditching imperial baggage to focus on …

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The coronavirus creates gun violence in New York City. Experts search for answers.

Colonial pipeline ransom payment gives Biden instant relief but long term headaches.