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  1. How I Met Your Mother’s Barney: Cartoon or Human?

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 9 Mar 2010 | 7:50 pm MST

    This season of How I Met Your Mother has revealed a split in the way different fans view the show’s most popular character, Barney. Sometimes the show treats him as a pure cartoon character, whose serial womanizing and wacky schemes are played purely for laughs. And sometimes the show suggests that he might have real [...]

  2. The Commons: ‘I have the feeling that nothing will satisfy the honourable gentleman’

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 9 Mar 2010 | 4:13 pm MST

    Liberals cry out for "nothing but the truth" in detainee scandal

  3. Just when did the EU sign up to this?

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 9 Mar 2010 | 3:22 pm MST


    The drug legalisation lobby group Transform purrs on its website:

    As Steve Rolles heads off for California, I am at the UN's annual Commission on Narcotic Drugs meeting in Vienna for which Transform has ECOSOC special consultative status. We are here as more than just spectators. In addition to attending a range of meetings that I will report on over the next few days, we have co-organised our own event, as part of the rapidly growing campaign for an Impact Assessment of drug policy, with our colleagues at the International Drug Policy Consortium. We are particularly pleased Carel Edwards the Head of the EC's Anti-Drugs Policy Unit has agreed to speak, as well as the Chair of IDPC Mike Trace, and myself (details below).

    What is the EU’s top drug policy official doing sharing a platform with drug legalisers?



  4. The president who made his country a global mockery

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 9 Mar 2010 | 2:57 pm MST


    As predicted here, Obama’s foreign policy has collapsed in total ignominy. We are now all very much less safe than we were before this man was elected to the White House. A new poll -- for the Democrats, forsooth -- suggests that a majority of Americans think the USA is less respected in the world than it was two years ago and think President Obama and other Democrats fall short of Republicans on the issue of national security.

    You don't say.

    As this piece in American Thinker observes:

    Barack Obama, in his first press conference after his election, called Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons ‘unacceptable.’ He repetitively offered Iran ‘engagement.’ He set a deadline of year-end 2009 for Iranian compliance, now unilaterally extended another three months.

    Iran contemptuously and repetitively responded that it had no intention of abandoning its nuclear program. Obama’s Iran policy is collapsing to the accompaniment of open mockery around the globe. Obama assured us that his ‘engagement’ would make it easier to enlist other countries to stop Iran. The result is the opposite. Virtually every country Obama approached has rebuffed him. Without a



  5. The cycle

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 9 Mar 2010 | 1:39 pm MST

    The Liberal side was, if memory serves, not terribly impressed when Conservative backbenchers were sent up, in the midst of Ruby Dhalla’s nanny problems, to ask terribly serious questions about the matter’s implications. And so the Conservative side was terribly outraged—John Baird was particularly and audibly appalled—when, a short while ago, the Liberals sent up Anita Neville [...]

  6. Seriously, wtf (UPDATED)

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 9 Mar 2010 | 1:16 pm MST

    UPDATE: Laura Drake actually made some today, and live tweeted the proceedings. Check out #gretztea on twitter. *** This appeared, seemingly out of nowhere, in newsrooms across the nation this week:

  7. Always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 9 Mar 2010 | 12:49 pm MST

    The insomniacs among you will be glad to know the budget documents are available online. As a re-hash of everything you already know, they’re positively outstanding: 337: Number of references to the “Economic Action Plan” or the “Action Plan” (announced in 2009) 19: Combined number of references to “Budget 2006″, “Budget 2007″ and “Budget 2008″ 1: Combined [...]

  8. You Make Us So Happy, Oh, Andy (Richter)

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 9 Mar 2010 | 12:47 pm MST

    In case you haven’t seen it yet, Andy Richter was on Regis and The One Who’s Not Kathie Lee Kelly this morning, and while he didn’t dish a lot of dirt or anything (“I have children, I still need work”), he did talk frankly about the mistakes made by the network, and the fact that [...]

  9. Overused Joke Or Catchphrase?

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 9 Mar 2010 | 12:32 pm MST

    I’ll have an actual — or at least more current — post later today, but for filler(tm), here is the catchphrase that was my favourite (more so than “Norm!” or anything else) when I was watching NBC Thursday nights back in the day. Though the question I can’t answer is whether this was really a [...]

  10. The r-word

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 9 Mar 2010 | 11:36 am MST

    The word “rendition” was thrown around a bit yesterday during Question Period, directly as a result of Friday night’s report from CBC. This is both a phrase loaded with implication and the title of a movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon. For a more scholarly perspective, there is this paper, prepared by the Library of [...]

  11. On Lionel Tiger and the afterlife

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 9 Mar 2010 | 11:15 am MST

    My colleague Brian Bethune’s probing interview with anthropologist Lionel Tiger, mainly on the belief in an afterlife, is thought-provoking on its own and should also draw many Maclean’s readers to God’s Brain, the new book Tiger has written with Michael McGuire. Tiger’s beguiling voice in the Q & A, a blend of sagacity and common sense, [...]

  12. Paikin v. Flaherty

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 9 Mar 2010 | 10:45 am MST

    The host of the Agenda talks to the Finance Minister. And then a bunch of smart people, including our Andrew Coyne, talk about the budget.

  13. Better Proposals for Health Care

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 9 Mar 2010 | 4:10 am MST

    President Obama declared in his State of the Union Address: "If anyone from either party has a better approach [for health care reform] . . . let me know! I am eager to see it." Well, Mr. President, Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann does have better health care proposals, and most of her suggestions are contained in various bills that have been pending in Congress for months! Here are some of her

  14. Iraq's Cosmetic Election

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 8 Mar 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    "It takes a cynical mind not to share in the achievement of Iraq's national elections." So writes the Wall Street Journal editorial board today. I'm no cynic, but my mood about Iraq could variously be described as depressed, despairing, despondent,

  15. The jihad in Nigeria

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 8 Mar 2010 | 10:44 am MST


    Utterly appalling violence by Muslims against Christians in Nigeria where the latest tally after weekend attacks on three mostly Christian villages is some 500 dead. The media have described these events as ‘riots’; I would call this a jihadi pogrom. It is but the latest episode in what the media persist in characterising as inter-ethnic violence, but which is in fact a systematic attempt by Muslims to murder and ethnically cleanse the Christian community. The onslaught is described as ‘retaliation ‘ for violent attacks in Jos last January, in which the majority of the victims were Muslim. But as the Barnabas Fund reports, there is evidence that those January attacks were in fact Christian retaliation against Muslim aggression -- in particular on that occasion an attack on a church -- which has been going on for years.

    The fact that the jihad in Africa is widely ignored in the west is not just a moral dereliction of duty. It is a refusal by the west to understand what it is actually up against. What is happening to Nigeria’s Christians makes a mockery of the frenzied western obsession with

  16. Peter Schweizer — Architects of Ruin

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 8 Mar 2010 | 9:05 am MST

    Do you believe that politicians in general have the country's best interests at heart? Join us as we find out How Big Government Liberals Wrecked the Global Economy — and How They Will Do It Again If No One Stops Them. Listen to Eagle Forum Live Radio Program aired 3-06-10 Part 1: Part 2: Listen every Saturday (11-Noon CST): Bott Radio Network

  17. Global Warming Is Frozen Over

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 8 Mar 2010 | 4:41 am MST

    January was a really bad month for the claims of crisis by global warming alarmists. Frigid temperatures destroyed fruit and coral in Florida, and snow fell on Al Gore's palatial home in normally warmer Tennessee. Because of the revelation of emails and documents from the Climate Research Unit, an official associate of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we now know about some

  18. Supply-Side Financial Reform

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 7 Mar 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    Congress should unleash free markets to help protect consumers.

  19. Conservative Classics:

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 7 Mar 2010 | 12:15 pm MST

    Child Abuse in the Classroom Phyllis Schlafly, speech to the New York School Board, June 26, 1987 Townhall Magazine, Feb. 2010

  20. Bachmann: More Backroom Deals to Pass Health Care?

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 6 Mar 2010 | 11:13 am MST

    Rep. Bachmann appears on Your World with Neil Cavuto to shine some light on what's going on behind closed doors at the White House with health care negotiations.  

  21. Listen to Eagle Forum Live every Saturday

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 6 Mar 2010 | 8:00 am MST

    Peter Schweizer — Architects of Ruin Do you believe that politicians in general have the country's best interests at heart? Join us as we find out How Big Government Liberals Wrecked the Global Economy — and How They Will Do It Again If No One Stops Them. Listen every Saturday (11-Noon CST): Bott Radio Network

  22. Pro-Abortion House Leader: Pro-Life Advocates Can't Stop Senate Health Care Bill

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 5 Mar 2010 | 5:55 pm MST

    by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor March 5, 2010 Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The leader of the pro-abortion contingent in the House of Representatives claims pro-life advocates don't have the votes to stop the pro-abortion Senate health care bill there. However, it appears Rep. Diana DeGette's arithmetic may need some updating as opponents have the advantage. DeGette, a pro-abortion

  23. A rational article provokes bigoted frenzy at the FT

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 5 Mar 2010 | 10:26 am MST


     A few days ago, the historian Andrew Roberts wrote a piece in the Financial Times trenchantly defending the presumed assassination by Israel in Dubai of the Hamas terrorist Mahmoud Habhouh. In this article, which was itself a response to two examples of standard boilerplate bigotry that the paper had run about this, Roberts wrote:

    All that the Dubai operation will do is remind the world that the security services of states at war – and Israel’s struggle with Hamas, Fatah and Hizbollah certainly constitutes that – occasionally employ targeted assassination as one of the weapons in their armoury, and that this in no way weakens their legitimacy. As for the ‘separation walls’ and checkpoints that one sees in Israel, the 99 per cent drop in the number of suicide bombings since their erection justifies the policy. There is simply no parallel between apartheid South Africa – where the white minority wielded power over the black majority – and the occupied territories, taken by Israel only after it was invaded by its neighbours. To make such a link is not only inaccurate, but offensive.

    Not nearly as offensive,

  24. This sceptr'd isle

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 5 Mar 2010 | 5:34 am MST


    Last night I was chatting with a friend, a distinguished writer. He told me the following anecdotes. His son had taken his children back to their boarding school after the half-term break and was driving straight back home, around 50 miles away. He had consumed neither drink nor drugs and was driving steadily and carefully while listening to music. He became aware of a car following him closely for most of the way; to his astonishment, when he pulled into his drive the car followed him and out got two police officers. They claimed he had been driving in a lane where he should not have been. He denied this. After some further questioning they then asked: ‘Have you had a domestic?’ (police vernacular for a row with the wife). Upon being answered in the negative, the officers insisted on going into the house and asking the astounded wife whether she and her husband had had a row. Upon being answered again in the negative, they departed and no more was heard.

    This was not the only strange recent adventure involving a roadside encounter with the police to disturb my

  25. The Real Loser in the Massachusetts Election

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 5 Mar 2010 | 4:37 am MST

    The Democrats are very upset about their surprise defeat in the race to fill the U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts, so they are throwing their own candidate, Martha Coakley, under the bus. They blame her for running a poor campaign. Many reasons, of course, contributed to the remarkable victory of Senator Scott Brown. However, the chief reason Coakley's campaign didn't connect with the voters

  26. What Drives Us

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 4 Mar 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    Fulfillment, not money, says Daniel Pink's new study.

  27. How New York Could Lose by Winning

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 4 Mar 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    The state doesn't deserve a dollar in Race to the Top funds.

  28. The verbal pogrom

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 4 Mar 2010 | 12:09 pm MST


    A propos ‘lawfare’ and Anti-Israel Pogrom week, here are two excellent articles. Alan Dershowitz calls for a real ‘apartheid week’, protesting at the exclusion and oppression of Jews, women, gays and others in Muslim lands:

    The current “Israel Apartheid Week” on universities around the world, by focusing only on the imperfections of the Middle East’s sole democracy, is carefully designed to cover up far more serious problems of real apartheid in Arab and Muslim nations. The question is why do so many students identify with regimes that denigrate women, gays, non-Muslims, dissenters, environmentalists and human rights advocates, while demonizing a democratic regime that grants equal rights to women (the chief justice and speaker of the Parliament of Israel are women), gays (there are openly gay generals in the Israeli Army), non-Jews (Muslims and Christians serve in high positions in Israel) and dissenters, (virtually all Israelis dissent about something). Israel has the best environmental record in the Middle East, it exports more life saving medical technology than any country in the region and it has sacrificed more for peace than any country in the Middle East. Yet on many



  29. Smoke and mirrors over 'lawfare'

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 4 Mar 2010 | 11:19 am MST


    The Israeli paper Ha’aretz , along with the Kadima leader Tzipi Livni, appear to have been taken in by Gordon Brown’s noisy but misleading announcement in today’s Daily Telegraph that he will change the law to prevent the abuse of ‘universal jurisdiction’ through threats to arrest visiting Israeli dignatories for ‘war crimes’, an abuse which has caused the cancellation of a number of high-profile visits by Israelis to the UK of which the latest was the planned visit by Livni. Brown wrote:

    There is a case now, therefore, for the evidential basis on which arrest warrants can be allowed to be tougher and for restricting the right to prosecute the narrow range of crimes falling under universal jurisdiction to the Crown Prosecution Service alone.

    Livni and Ha’aretz naively take this at face value to assume that the UK is to change the law. But this is not so. Brown has merely said he intends to change the law and will consult on the best way to do this. But with a general election to be held by June at the very latest, and with no legislation actually

  30. Gordon Brown’s cry of impotence

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 4 Mar 2010 | 5:00 am MST

    MARK STEYN: If he rages naked at his aides it’s because he can do nothing about anything that matters

  31. Homework: Get Your Parents To Fill out the Census

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 4 Mar 2010 | 4:32 am MST

    The U.S. Census Bureau has launched an aggressive campaign to get school children to influence their parents to participate in the 2010 Census. This is part of a $13 billion national public information effort, and will reach about 56 million students in 118,000 schools. The plan is to disseminate posters, maps, teaching guides and lesson plans to every school in the nation. Schools will have a

  32. Take a Moment to THANK Senator Bunning!

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 3 Mar 2010 | 3:15 pm MST

    Senator Bunning Stands Up To Washington D.C.'s Out-of-Control Spending All by Himself!For 5 days, Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) had a hold on a spending bill to provide a 30-day extension of unemployment and health benefits as well as funding for highway programs. Sen. Bunning insisted that he was maintaining a hold on the legislation moving forward until Senate leaders agreed to fund the

  33. The marginal faith in the Ashcroft alchemy

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 3 Mar 2010 | 4:37 am MST


    The Guardian carries a story about the whizz-bang computer technology behind Lord Ashcroft’s marginal seats offensive -- the one being touted in some quarters as being on course to deliver victory to the Tories regardless of poor overall national polling intentions. Lower down the story, however, there is an admission that all may not be entirely hunky-dory with the way this ‘full hand-held integration’ is supposed to deliver on polling day itself – although apparently, through some mysterious alchemy not divulged to the reader, it will be all right on the night. But election campaigns are not won on polling day but through the kind of long-term, devilishly focused and manipulative targeting of susceptible voters that we are led to believe the Ashcroft offensive is delivering.

    I read this Guardian story with special interest, because I was told only this week by a mole in one of these mythical marginals that there was a serious glitch in the computer software being used, which made hook-ups between different computer systems particularly difficult and was preventing the devilishly focused targeting of voters on which so much hope was being pinned.

    Happy

  34. Cuomo's Well-Paved Road to Albany

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 2 Mar 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    The attorney general has caught one break after another.

  35. Here we go again?

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 2 Mar 2010 | 3:47 pm MST


    The invaluable Khaled abu Toameh reports yet again what you will not read in the British media:

    The Palestinian Authority is once again trying to divert attention from its problems at home, and the best way to do this is being escalating tensions with Israel - the Palestinian Authority’s policy since its inception after signing the Oslo Peace Accords in 1993. To distract attention from charges of financial corruption and embarrassing sexual scandals, the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank has stepped up its anti-Israel rhetoric.

    Allegations of “ethnic cleansing,” “destruction and desecration of Islamic religious sites,” “apartheid,” “racism,” “land theft” and “conducting medical experiments on Palestinian prisoners” are directed every day toward Israel by Abbas and his top officials and spokesmen. These charges are often backed up by threats to launch a “third intifada” or to resume suicide bombings against Israel. Given Abbas’s growing predicament, the likelihood of a new wave of violence in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip seems to be more realistic than ever.

    Thus the face of Palestinian moderation.



  36. The Muslim Militant Tendency

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 2 Mar 2010 | 2:33 pm MST


    The fatwa issued today by the respected Islamic scholar Sheikh Dr Tahir ul-Qadri, ruling that terrorism against anyone is a violation of Islamic precepts, is of course welcome as far as it goes. Unfortunately, that’s not likely to be very far when other fatwas by differently respected scholars have validated such attacks as being justified and even mandated under Islamic law.

    The real problem in the UK, moreover, lies not simply in the fact that jihad is being waged in and against Britain, but even more crucially in Britain’s spineless and indeed suicidal response to it. Consider, for example, the reaction to last night’s Channel Four Dispatches programme which exposed the infiltration of the Labour party in east London by militant Islamists of the Islamic Forum for Europe, and whose findings were extensively reported in the Sunday Telegraph. As the Labour MP for Poplar and Canning Town observes, the IFE has become, in effect, a secret party within Labour and other political parties:

    ‘They are acting almost as an entryist organisation, placing people within the political parties, recruiting members to those political parties, trying to get individuals



  37. Crisis in Turkey

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 2 Mar 2010 | 7:00 am MST

    The arrest and indictment of top military figures in Turkey last week precipitated potentially the most severe crisis since Atatürk founded the republic in 1923. The weeks ahead will probably indicate whether the country continues its slide toward

  38. I didn’t medal because your pants are snug

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 1 Mar 2010 | 2:04 pm MST

    Scott Feschuk on blamers vs. complainers

  39. What has changed in Ottawa in two months?

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 1 Mar 2010 | 9:28 am MST

    Parliament’s first week back will see a war of narratives as Harper fires up his big guns: the budget and the Throne Speech

  40. Tiger’s a lot of things, but he’s not sick

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 26 Feb 2010 | 8:50 am MST

    Woods spent 45 days in therapy. But is ‘sex addiction’ really an illness?

  41. Cheering for our athletes and ourselves

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 26 Feb 2010 | 8:40 am MST

    ANDREW COYNE: We have all, to a greater or lesser extent, undergone a change in national temperament

  42. Signs of life for Michael Ignatieff

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 26 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am MST

    Prorogation allowed Ignatieff to see through the fog of his foibles and find his vision

  43. Rotten

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 25 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    Led by New York, big-government blue states sink deeper into corruption.

  44. Who's Winning the Race to the Top?

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 25 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    An assessment

  45. A missed opportunity for diversity

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 25 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am MST

    Mark Steyn on the opening ceremonies: Where was the genuinely bizarro cavalcade?

  46. I feel pity for Colonel Williams if he’s guilty

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 23 Feb 2010 | 6:41 pm MST

    Barbara Amiel on the blessing and the curse of human sexuality

  47. It’s all a blur, and it’s not the vodka’s fault

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 23 Feb 2010 | 6:31 pm MST

    It’s a time to revel in the power of the human spirit and the limits of the human credit card

  48. Private lives and the public interest

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 22 Feb 2010 | 11:39 am MST

    Whenever a scandal arises, the same debate is replayed: does the public have a right to know about a politician’s private affairs?

  49. Health Care and Hubris

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 21 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    Scott Brown didn't derail health-care reform. Bad politics and policy choices did.

  50. Matters of Life and Death

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 18 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    Two fathers' memoirs show that grief has no political affiliation.

  51. Should We Believe Rashad Hussain?

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 16 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    Rashad Hussain, Barack Obama's special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, has run into a problem: He appears to be an Islamist. The evidence largely concerns a public statement he made six years ago, as Josh Gerstein reports in Politico

  52. In Mideast, Bet on a Strong Horse

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 16 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am MST

    The violence and cruelty of Arabs often perplexes Westerners. Not only does the leader of Hizbullah proclaim "We love death," but so too does, for example, a 24-year-old man who last month yelled "We love death more than you love life" as he crashed his

  53. Keith Ellison, Where Are You?

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 16 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am MST

    The leftist magazine Tikkun, in its January–February 2010 issue, carries an "Interview with Keith Ellison" in which the magazine's editor asks the Democratic congressman from Minnesota about my recent article "Islamism 2.0": MICHAEL LERNER: You are aware

  54. Reflections on Iran's Islamic Republic

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 10 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    As protesters prepare to gather and the regime flexes its muscle, where does Iran stand? The regime, its grip there, its place in the world? The democracy advocates'? National Review Online asked our experts to assess the situation in Iran and how the

  55. Sarah Palin Endorses 'Bomb Iran'

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 8 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am MST

    My National Review Online column last week carried the provocative title, "How to Save the Obama Presidency: Bomb Iran," and provoke it surely did. Leftists on websites like ThinkProgress and DailyKos reacted voluminously and in slightly crazed ways,

  56. Western Civilization on Trial: Why We Should Be Watching Geert Wilders

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 7 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    As the Geert Wilders case goes into pre-trial, National Review Online asked our experts: Is there any legitimate reason he's in court? What are the implications of such a trial being held, never mind its outcome? (For replies by Bat Ye'or, Paul

  57. How to Save the Obama Presidency: Bomb Iran

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 2 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am MST

    I do not customarily offer advice to a president whose election I opposed, whose goals I fear, and whose policies I work against. But here is an idea for Barack Obama to salvage his tottering administration by taking a step that protects the United

  58. Wasting U.S. Taxpayer Money in Afghanistan

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 29 Jan 2010 | 10:00 pm MST

    A 2009 critique found that the taxpayer has invested some $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq since 2003, or about $9 billion a year. Most or all of it has been or will be wasted. Nonetheless, here we go again, this time in Afghanistan, at



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