In Tablet Magazine, Tony Badran finds that President Joe Biden, in his first speech following Hamas’s massacre of Israeli civilians, deliberately obfuscated the connection between Hamas and its main sponsor, Iran. Biden apparently intended to discourage Israel from attacking Iran and focus instead on Hamas – at which point it will be roasted for unintentionally killing civilians.
The Paper-Pushers Who (Barely) Control America’s Skies
Fans of the 1999 movie Pushing Tin will recall frenetic scenes of air traffic controllers working to keep airliners from colliding in crowded skies. The current reality, writes John Tierney in City Journal, is far worse. Control tasks at U.S. airports today are still exchanged using paper “flight strips”. In contrast to this “international disgrace”, writes Tierney, European and even Canadian control towers have gone nearly all-digital.