Happy Halloween!
Another regulatory carve-out by Kevin Wolf. . . Kevin tells me that he considered carving an EAR pumpkin, but it would have been too complex and, in any event, not spooky enough once it was understood. (Photograph by Kevin Wolf;…
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New York Times Futilely Calls for End to Cuba Embargo
Earlier this week the New York Times editorial board called for the end of the fifty-three-year-old embargo on Cuba. There is, of course, nothing unfamiliar or new about the arguments forwarded by the Times for the end of the embargo.…
Comment Notifications
For some reason, there was a period of about a week during which I was not getting notifications of comments pending approval, so there were a number that I just discovered and approved. I am trying to figure out why…
Seeing Through the Smoked-Filled Rooms of Sanctions
The Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail reported last week that lobbying records made public this month show the CEO and a lobbyist for Kinross Gold Corp., a Canadian gold mining company and one of the world’s largest, “have had…
Oh, The Errors You’ll Make!
Yesterday the New York Times followed up on its article about the mysterious U.S. plane seen on the runway of an airport in Tehran. According to the follow-up article, the plane was leased by the Bank of Utah by a…