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The question is at what point can Israel end its attacks on Hamas in Gaza. The answer is "when Hamas is no longer in power in Gaza." That does not mean that Israel, which voluntarily withdrew from Gaza, should take over governing the enclave. It doesn't guarantee that whomever takes over from Ham More...
One of the few economic bright spots is the historically low prices of gasoline; it's even possible that the amount Americans are saving both by buying less and paying less for the gallons they do buy will let us replenish our damaged balance sheets quickly enough to avoid a prolonged downturn. More...
The pirates released by the German navy with a wrist slap will be back; sooner or later they'll kill someone. The blame for those deaths belongs to the politicians who ordered the pirates released and to the pirates themselves. One of the main reasons we put up with all the expense and nonsense o More...
Grandson Jack went to sleep bravely with just a few complaints about the pain of teething. As babysitters do, Mary and I turned on the big screen… and watched the future of TV.
Like most young couples Hugh and Kate don't have a landline phone although of course they both have mobiles and u More...
The UAW is pushing for the incoming Obama administration to release them from the requirement that their members receive reduced salaries comparable to what non-union transplants building in the US pay their workers. "The bankers didn't have to agree to such onerous terms" is one of the arguments More...
GM is bailing out private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management while waiting for its own bailout from the rest of us. The details are in a barely-noticed filing with the SEC (which is not, of course, r More...
Virgin Media announced its intention of restricting BitTorrent traffic on its new 50Mbps service according to an article by Chris Williams in The Register. Does this mean that net neutrality is endangered in the UK? More...
Good challenging questions from reader brooke oberwetter showed up on CircleID where Fractals of Change is sometimes cross-posted in reponse to More...
As long as US telecom is duopoly dominated, a neutral Internet is endangered if not impossible; regulation of this kind of concentrated power is necessary but is unlikely to be sufficient. The solution, IMHO, is to dilute the power of the duopoly so that consumers can buy whatever kind of Interne More...
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