The great biologist and student of ants, E.O. Wilson, was on C-Span the other day, endorsing, among other ideas, Einstein’s belief that we must all become vegetarians or turn the earth to powder. There are more than 500 vegetable species…
Today’s Times performs the great service of describing the separate road system that Israel has built for Arab and Jew in the West Bank. Bless the editors, a stark 4-column photo at the top of page 1 shows us the…
Unbelievable that Walt and Mearsheimer have been banned from speaking in Chicago. Again proving the profs’ argument about the strength of the Israel lobby. Where is Alan Dershowitz? Even he ought to decry this censorship, which is only forcing the…
Congressman Thaddeus McCotter, a Michigan Republican and a sharp guy, addressed the Heritage Foundation last week and said there has to be a political solution in Iraq–Shi’ites and Sunnis both have to feel that they have a stake. Democracy is…
The other day I went to see No End in Sight, the documentary on Iraq that has gotten all kinds of critical praise. You have to hand it to independent filmmaker Charles Ferguson. The movie gives you a better idea…
The other day on C-Span, Robert Novak said that Hillary Clinton is singularly unlikeable. People don’t like her. I’ve seen that with my friends. Yet almost all of them believe she’ll be our next president. Likeability was prized a lot…
When Bonds caught Aaron yesterday, Commissioner Bud Selig said he or another baseball official would attend the Giants’ next few games “out of respect for the tradition of the game, the magnitude of the record and the fact that all…
In a testy exchange with a Christian radio host, Mitt Romney bridled at being linked to Mormon church doctrine on abortion and other fundamental concerns. “I’m not running as a Mormon,” Romney said, “and I get a little tired of…
Yesterday’s presidential forum at the YearlyKos convention was all about bashing lobbyists, but there was one lobby they didn’t touch. According to the official chatroom at YearlyKos, Israel was off the table: [11:52] Quirinal Raymaker: [Apropos of fighting Al Qaeda]…