Post Archive
June 7, 2013
Laura Ingraham and Me (Round Two)
Laura Ingraham and I had some differences over a number of political matters that made their way into print (see here and here). Laura asked...
Obama Can’t Be Trusted with Power
I agree with Jonathan’s post both in terms of substance and the media response to the NSA/surveillance stories. On the former: the PRISM program, in the...
Palestinians Have Suffered … at the Hands of Their Leaders
Sometimes a great truth can be found even in a compendium of lies. That’s the upshot of the latest rant against Israel from a Palestinian...
Liberal Obama Critics Pull Their Punches
Many of President Obama’s liberal supporters are angry today as they contemplate just how badly they were fooled by Democratic campaign rhetoric in both 2008...
Obama’s Strategy Deficit
In September 2012 at the Democratic National Convention, John Kerry stepped up to the microphone to mock President Obama’s Republican opponent. “Mitt Romney talks like...
The Jobs Report
There is little news in this morning’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. There were 175,000 jobs created in May, but the unemployment...
A Surprising Pro-Israel Strategy in Europe
Pro-Israel activists in Norway, where anti-Israel sentiment is rampant, assuredly don’t have it easy. So it was fascinating to read David Weinberg’s account of the...
Rachel Abrams, 1951-2013
Rachel Abrams, the legendary Bad Rachel of the Internet, was as tender a woman as she was the soul of toughness on her blog. Rachel...
Do We Still Need a Special Envoy on Anti-Semitism?
Reading the remarks of Ira Forman, the State Department's newly-appointed special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, to a Washington D.C. gathering of the American...