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• 'NYT' columnist praises fundamentalist Jews as collective of 'the future'
  • surewin March 8, 2013 at 11:18 am

    Remind me, does MJ Rosenberg include Brooks in his list of alter kockers (along with David Mamet and others)?

• Which will prevail-- latest neocon charge on Hagel over Israel, or D.C.'s fatigue over delay?
  • surewin February 17, 2013 at 5:12 pm

    I would much prefer that the U.S. had a fluid party system as some parliamentary governments do. But even to break the party duopoly in America would require fundamental legal changes that aren't on the horizon at the moment. Something that's worth working for.

  • surewin February 17, 2013 at 3:21 pm

    I've thought about Hagel running for President in 2016. I won't rehearse all the logic, but I think his best odds would be to switch parties and run as a Democrat, and those are long odds.

  • surewin February 17, 2013 at 2:55 pm with 1 replies

    AJC says: "But in light of his complex record in the Senate..."

    Not good to have a complex record in the Senate. Must be simple and clear.

• Hagel obeyed Senate taboo against criticism of Israel-- 'our most important ally in the entire world'
  • surewin February 1, 2013 at 4:20 pm

    Do the Senators have a rational strategy in this case? Hagel is still expected to be confirmed, so what are they trying to do?

    Hagel must be enraged by this. Should they be concerned that his response after being confirmed will be to do the opposite of what they want him to do, or as little of it as he can get away with?

    Are they setting up a confrontation with the Administration, which seems to be moving in the wrong direction as they see it? If so, how risky is that? Do they know for sure that they can prevail when the time comes?

    It seems to me that it can't just be about campaign contributions. And the word "intimidation" doesn't even seem strong enough. It seems more like they're under control.

    I get the sense that some kind of reckoning is coming soon. I don't know how it will play out.

• Endless 'debate over two-state solution' is cover for the real story, annexation of West Bank
  • surewin January 1, 2013 at 2:27 pm with 1 replies

    The two-state solution is a solution to a problem. The problem is the public relations challenge associated with a gradual takeover of the West Bank. The solution is to talk about the two-state solution until the takeover is finished.

• Was Obama just doing the rope-a-dope last night?
  • surewin October 5, 2012 at 7:40 am with 1 replies

    I don't think Obama won the battle, but I think he got closer to winning the war. He's just running out the clock at this point. My biggest fear is that Romney will close the gap enough that some faceless committee of people will decide that they can steal the election for him.

    And poor James North should just get rid of his television. Life is too short for tedious, centrist, dull, unchallenging TV programs.

• Garrison Keillor comes out, slightly
  • surewin October 2, 2012 at 11:58 pm

    Much better than nothing. By the way, and help me out here, but is he also joking by putting himself in the position of God? "...you have nothing to atone for to me..."

• Obama says Netanyahu's demands are 'noise' and Romney seems to want to 'start another war'
  • surewin September 23, 2012 at 10:00 pm with 2 replies

    Obama referring to Israel: "They're one of our closest allies in the region."

    That way of saying it seems significant, too.

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