When I went to Syria in January (to visit my wife’s cousin who teaches in Damascus), I signed a visa application on which I had to check a box saying that I had never been to “Occupied Palestine.” I’d never…
The Independent publishes newly-discovered evidence that a Polish barber named Kosminski was the serial murderer who killed 5 prostitutes in London in 1888, and says he was never questioned because he was insane. The story turns on a renovated police…
Jason Horowitz’s fine piece on the Lieberman-Lamont race in this week’s Observer contains a stretcher, or 2, from N.Y. Congressman Anthony Weiner: ‘[T]he Palestinian position seems to be perfect for the Internet world of pithy back-and-forth and 30-second You Tube…
Last night during the Triple-A All-Star game on ESPN, Buck Martinez and Jon Sciambi talked about Zinedine Zidane. Today I turn on Cold Pizza on ESPN and Woody Paige is talking about the head butt heard ’round the world. Zidane…
In the latest New Republic, Israeli scholar Benny Morris is given many pages to expound his view that “the West” is now engaged in a battle with Islamists on three fronts: “Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.” He goes on, “For many…
Just when I was beginning to forget all the gifts of the neoconservatives, the New York Sun Âfunded in part by Juilliard Chairman Bruce KovnerÂtook care to remind me yesterday, in a sparkling front-page editorial titled “Bring Back the Neocons”:…
I have tried to inject the Israel lobby question into the Connecticut Senate race. I gather that on Sunday on C-Span Katrina Vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, also raised the question of where Lieberman and Lamont stand on this…
I turned on Charlie Rose yesterday at lunch and had one of those frozen-to-the-table experiences. He was doing a three-part series on Warren Buffett, which concludes tonight. Rose gets access, and the access has been rewarded with an incredibly intimate…
Umm. Commenter recentdemocrat points out that Jane Harman won her primary June 6. Still doesn’t justify her war stance, or eliminate Matthews’s responsibility to take her on, but… Looks like the Observer’s going to have to dock my pay again.