Obama Is Muslim?
By JAMES TARANTO
Back in March, CBS’s Steve Kroft interviewed Hillary Clinton for “60 Minutes.” Something Mrs. Clinton said upset supporters of Barack Obama, including Bob Herbert of the New York Times:
Mr. Kroft asked Senator Clinton if she believed that Senator Obama is a Muslim. In one of the sleaziest moments of the campaign [...]

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Beseeching the Saudis
We don’t know who advised President Bush to go on bended knee to Saudi Arabia yesterday, to plead with King Abdullah to ramp up oil supply and ease prices at the American gas pump. But about that adviser, our suggestion to the President is: Fire him – or her.
A cardinal rule of presidential [...]

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Hillary Revealed That Women Can Be Nasty, Deceptive Candidates Too
By Barbara Ehrenreich,
In last Friday’s New York Times, Susan Faludi rejoiced over Hillary Clinton’s destruction of the myth of female prissiness and innate moral superiority, hailing Clinton’s “no-holds-barred pugnacity” and her [...]

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Drug violence in Mexico
Can the army out-gun the drug lords?
Four top police officers, and more than a hundred people, are killed over the course of a single week in drug-related shootings

“FEAR is our chief safeguard,” Pericles declared in his funeral oration, “for it teaches us to obey the magistrates and the laws.” In Mexico, [...]

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Kuwait
An election in Kuwait
Kuwait holds a parliamentary election. Is democracy slowly spreading in the Gulf?

WHAT does a parliamentary election in Kuwait, on Saturday May 17th, suggest about the progress of democracy in the region as a whole? Kuwait is certainly one of the more democratic corners of the Gulf, with a freer press and [...]

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Yahoo!
Now the rebellion
Enraged shareholders and activists are pushing Yahoo!’s board to revive takeover talks with Microsoft

YAHOO!’S co-founder and boss, Jerry Yang, and his board had this coming. For three months they did everything they could to rebuff Microsoft, which was offering to buy the internet company at a big premium to its value before [...]

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McCain Iraq, Iran Policies Make Him Favored Candidate to Saudis

– John McCain, who is trying to strike a distance from the policies of President George W. Bush, accuses Saudi Arabia of sponsoring insurgents in Iraq and condemns [...]

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Fed, BOE Foreshadow End of Rate Cuts as Prices Rise (Update2)

– The world’s most powerful central banks are telegraphing the end of interest-rate cuts, and traders already anticipate the first steps in the opposite direction. [...]

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Fed’s Lockhart Says Slowdown to Reduce U.S. Inflation (Update1)
May 17 (Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Dennis Lockhart said the U.S. economic slowdown may moderate inflation that has been spurred by rising prices of energy and commodities.
“We [...]

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Dollar Falls Most Against Euro in Seven Weeks on Sentiment, Oil
May 17 (Bloomberg) — The dollar fell the most against the euro since March as a drop in consumer confidence and record crude oil prices raised concern U.S. economic growth will slow. [...]

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