P.I.D. Radio 7/16/09: This Is Only a Drill… For Now

IN A move that’s clearly intended to send a message to Iran, the Israeli navy has sailed two of its most advanced missile boats through the Suez Canal and into the Red Sea. Only ten days ago, an Israeli submarine believed to be equipped with cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads made the same passage.

The message is direct: “We can move nuclear weapons within range anytime we want.”

P.I.D. Radio 7/14/09: People We Don’t Want Too Many Of

THE TITLE of today’s show is a reference to a response Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave to a question during an interview last week with the New York Times Magazine: Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe [v. Wade] was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.