In the poorest county in America, you can take over the government and the media won't even notice. The Palestinian verses The teaching of lyrical poetry by a former PLO leader throws Israel's government for a loop.
Conduct unbecoming A new report details the sharp increase in harassment of gays in the military.
Israel, where most adults are either on active military duty or in the reserves and almost every home has a weapon, also has a low murder rate, on a par with most of Western Europe. But that's not all. But in this case, blaming the guns for the deaths is especially dubious. In 1996, the suicide rate per 100,000 people was 11.8 in the U.S., 13.4 in Canada, 17.9 in Japan, 20.9 in France and 25 in Finland. The foolishness to which smart people will sink on the subject of guns is epitomized by a recent report in the New England Journal of Medicine that linked the buying of handguns to elevated suicide risk.