Archive for June, 2010

Conventional wisdom — how often it’s wrong

My husband is hoping that I can put my prodigious knowledge of the news to work by predicting movement in the stock market.  I keep telling him that the fact that I know what’s happening in the world is entirely separate from my understanding what’s going to happen in the markets.  For example, I know [...]

A few more updates

I have added a few more very good links to my comprehensive post from yesterday about the “peace” flotilla, and I urge you to check them out.  In future, though, I’ll be retiring that post, and will add new information at the top of my blog, as I usually do.

The impossible double standard applied to Israel

Jennifer Rubin explains that the world has tightly bound Israel between the Scylla and Charybdis, rather like a staked goat: The flotilla interdiction raises the same issue as Israel’s original response to Hamas’s rocket attacks into Israel. The fundamental question that Richard Goldstone, the UN, the J Street crowd, and the chorus of international critics [...]