This is what ethnic cleansing looks like:

An as-yet confidential report submitted by the European consuls in Jerusalem and Ramallah raises urgent concerns over the “forced expulsion” of Palestinians ...from Area C of the West Bank... the report mentions the fertile and strategic Jordan Valley (where the Palestinian population has declined from 250,000 to 50,000 since the start of the Occupation)...

If you paid any attention to Xi Jinping, the president-designate (interesting that they even have such a position, rather like scholarly associations) of China, you might have been struck by the efficiency with which the Chinese political system finds and promotes individuals of talent.

Consider, after all, that Xi Jinping was not the product of a democratically premised electoral politics.  He was selected by cadres who themselves were selected from ever wider pools of aspirants.

We are being priveleged to witness, once again, the down-in-flames destruction of a creepy New York Police Commissioner. (ed note: the last non-creepy one wasTeddy Roosevelt...)

Newt Gingrich, like Tide and Coke is new and  improved.

We learn, inter alia, from this evening's debate that he has raised his performance as a health care policy analyst.

Viz:

When jacked up by Santorum over his decade of support for an individual mandate to buy insurance, Newt credited (and tacitly solicited credit for) the onset of new wisdom.