http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/ Facts & Arts en Copyright 2012 Facts & Arts Wed, 8 Feb 2012 20:56:01 +0200 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/dealing-with-iran/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:56:01 +0200 If we are to believe what we are hearing and reading from a variety of confirmed and unconfirmed sources, in Israel and the U.S., some day in the next few months we may wake up to the news that Israel has bombed Iran's nuclear facilities. Or maybe not. The Israelis appear to be deeply divided on the issue, sending mixed signals, almost daily,... http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/dealing-with-iran/ http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/protecting-access-to-birth-control-does-not-violate-religious-freedom-and-it-is-a-moral-imperative/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:41:31 +0200  In many respects it is amazing that in 2012 there is a controversy over women’s access to birth control.   Let’s be clear, the current controversy over the Obama Administration’s rules that require all employers who provide health insurance to provide birth control without a co-pay to its women employees, has nothing whatsoever to do with... http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/protecting-access-to-birth-control-does-not-violate-religious-freedom-and-it-is-a-moral-imperative/ http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/why-character-and-core-values-could-prove-decisive-in-battle-for-presidency/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:25:35 +0200 More than most elections, the contest for President this fall is likely to be decided less on “wedge issues” – or even candidate positions that are symbolic of who is on whose side – and more on the character and core values of the candidates -- and for that matter on the question of the core values of the society we hope to leave to our... http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/why-character-and-core-values-could-prove-decisive-in-battle-for-presidency/ http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/piracy-and-prosecution-ringing-in-kim-dotcom/ Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:01:00 +0200 Like money for jam, journalists have found their demon figure, their publicity machine, in the form of anti-copyright maestro Kim Dotcom.  He is a figure of capacious girth with a string of white collar crimes that would make some blush and others envious.  Most just know him as Kim Schmitz, who made copyright violations lucrative and... http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/piracy-and-prosecution-ringing-in-kim-dotcom/ http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/syrian-snapshot-i-a-view-from-the-capital/ Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:02:00 +0200 People pray next to the coffins of people killed in explosion in the Maidan district of Damascus on Friday, at al-Hasan mosque in Damascus (photo: SANA ) Crossing over the Lebanese border into Syria was anticlimactic. It was the second week of January and the lines of people waiting to have their papers checked did not look markedly shorter... http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/syrian-snapshot-i-a-view-from-the-capital/ http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-imperatives-and-choises/ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:41:00 +0200 For more than two decades I have been involved as a researcher, writer and as a back-channel interlocutor in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The question that has puzzled me as well as the multitude of observers, researchers and even those directly involved in the peace negotiations is why, after 64 years of blood and toil, successive... http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-imperatives-and-choises/ http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/why-the-bain-capital-controversy-is-so-damaging-to-gop-chances-this-fall/ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:22:00 +0200 The last few weeks of the Republican Presidential road show has been dominated by discussion of Mitt Romney's career as head of a Wall Street private equity firm - Bain Capital. Most people who enter politics have some previous career in the private sector-especially if they're wealthy. But Mitt Romney's career on Wall Street - which he... http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/why-the-bain-capital-controversy-is-so-damaging-to-gop-chances-this-fall/ http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/predicting-the-presidential-election-2012/ Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:53:00 +0200 Amidst all the fuss about President Obama's sagging poll numbers, the struggling U.S. economy, and "who's up and who's down" in the Republican presidential primary contest, American University Professor Allan Lichtman has issued his "sure fire" prediction for the outcome of the November, 2012 election. Lichtman is no crystal ball gazer. His... http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/predicting-the-presidential-election-2012/ http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/the-settlers-movement-is-a-threat-to-peace-and-israels-existence/ Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:09:00 +0200 The attack of hard-line Jewish settlers on an Israeli military base in the West Bank must not be seen as a passing incident that can simply be eradicated by punishing the perpetrators, as Prime Minister Netanyahu said in the Israeli Parliament. This dangerous and most deplorable incident is a byproduct of the continuing settlement policies... http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/the-settlers-movement-is-a-threat-to-peace-and-israels-existence/ http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/iowa-results-bad-news-for-gop/ Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:19:00 +0200 To maximize their odds of reclaiming their hold on the White House, the Republican establishment believes they need two things: · To nominate Mitt Romney; · To effectively end the Republican nominating process as soon as possible. Last night's results from Iowa lower the odds they will get either. In fact, what we saw in Iowa last night was... http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/iowa-results-bad-news-for-gop/