First: thanks to Dara, Ned, Daniel and Matt for a wonderful weekend-plus’ guestbloggery. I ended up breathing deeply and leaving my computer at home in order to enforce vacationing, something that also rationed my iPhone usage. A pleasant second-order effect of that decision is not to know what was on my blog for three days, [...]

So he says to the Washington Post, which kind of shrugs.

How happy I am to see her go from U Street denizen covering State for Bloomberg to Washington Post Jerusalem bureau chief. Not many reporters will include this graf in their Netanyahu-rebuke write-em-ups: What has perhaps been overlooked in the current brouhaha is that such construction is far from limited to Ramat Shlomo. According to [...]

Audible gasp: “Why does the country need an independent Air Force?” the senior civilian assistant to Gen. Norton A. Schwartz, the service’s chief of staff, had written. For the first time in the 62-year history of the Air Force, the answer isn’t entirely clear. Rob, you magnificent bastard. Seriously, read the article, as it’s a [...]