Tonight I caught C-Span’s Book TV, Philip Shenon of the New York Times talking about his 9/11 Commission book to Michael Duffy of Time Mag. Shenon’s argument is that there was massive bungling in the intelligence agencies that resulted in…
I spent a lot of time with Zionists yesterday. I won’t say where, it’s a personal connection that I treasure. Dear old friends, a couple of whom I utterly love. They don’t even know about my blogging activities or if…
Why is it that only campaign advisers quit? Shaheen, Power–not to mention the casting off of Rob Malley. These people were merely advising campaigns; it’s fine for them to get cut loose. What about the idiot braintrust that got us…
The most horrifying detail for me of the Jerusalem massacre was the fact that the gunman apparently worked at the school. Israelis must be saying, we can’t trust any of these Arabs, even our servants and employees. I saw that…
The writer Samantha Power has done us all a favor by throwing the word “monster” into the race. It is worth the loss of her advice-giving, which maybe she can resume after purdah. There is something monstrous about the Clintons’…
Going into the basement conference room of a law firm on 6th Avenue in New York yesterday to hear former Cheney adviser David Wurmser speak on “What’s at Stake for the West in Lebanon?” I was afraid that the subject,…
The great editor Gene Roberts used to say that big stories don’t break, they ooze. Certainly this is the case with Obama’s meeting with 100 Cleveland Jews a week back, which I believe was merely monumental. The New York Jewish…
I always feel a twinge of guilt when I do it, but I often post news and views about Jewish wealth because I think it is such an important factor in the Jewish presence in American life. The guilt comes…
Jerome Slater objected to my posting a link to a heart-rending photograph of a dead 5-month-old Palestinian child from Andrew Sullivan’s site. In my view, it’s a mistake to use a picture of a dead child in support of an…