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You’ll no doubt recall the Big Announcement England’s Prince Charles made about a month ago about reducing his "carbon footprint" by taking commercial flights instead of royal helicopters and private planes. At the time, The Stiletto predicted he would insulate himself from the discomforts of today’s cramped and dirty planes by commandeering the first-class section. The Stiletto underestimated his chutzpah.His Royal Minus and a 20-member posse have booked the entire first-class and business-class sections – 62 seats in all, according to thisislondon.co.uk – for a flight to New York later this month. "This means their effective 'carbon footprint' is three...

Jimmy Carter out of the anti-Zionist closet Jimmy Carter is out of the anti-Zionist closet. In a column in the Pakistan Daily Times entitled “Colonisation of Palestine precludes peace” Carter writes “The pre-eminent obstacle to peace is Israel’s colonisation of Palestine…” To be sure, he ends his column by calling for recognition for Israel by the Palestinians, but Carter cannot possibly misunderstand what “colonization of Palestine” means to Hamas, Iran, and Bin Laden. It means the existence of Israel anywhere in what was once called Palestine. That is a deliberate ambiguity, as Carter knows perfectly well. It plays to the...